I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
JOSEPH ADDISONWomen were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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