Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
JOSEPH ADDISONLove is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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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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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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