Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISONOur disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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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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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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