There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
JOSEPH ADDISONit would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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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.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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