Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
JOSEPH ADDISONA day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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