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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Joseph Addison

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Circumstance Enemies Goal Innovation Men Naturally
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Book Exercise Mind Read Reading Strengthened
The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Difference First Great Know Out Pick Suppress Word Thought
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Arise Conversation Enjoyment Friendship Happiness One Self Talking
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
JOSEPH ADDISON

Critic Excellence Imperfection Inspiration Ought True
The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Divine Even Foresight Secret Step Trace Transition Unable
A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Beauty Discover Impression Mastery Men Reading Stroke Stronger Writing
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 ADDISON

Birth Evening Listen Listening Moon Repeat Shade Stories Take Tale Wondrous
Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Always Coxcomb Drama Fool Make Men Natural Own Sometimes
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Comfort Consider Honor Old Remember Time Years Young
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Form Hypocrisy Knowledge Learning Pedant Power
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Anxiety Fate Fear Judgment Lord Waiting
One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Difficult Important Master Mind Own Powerful Thing
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Essential Hope Inspirational Life Love Something
Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Bring Equally Evil Forth Good May Some Unexpected
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Happy Idol Idols Literature More Supernatural Unhappy

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