Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhether 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
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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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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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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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Our 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.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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