Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
JOSEPH ADDISONTemperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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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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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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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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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Women 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.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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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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