Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
JOSEPH ADDISONIt is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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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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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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