Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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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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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.
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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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