The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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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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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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