The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISONEvil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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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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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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