We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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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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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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