Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere 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
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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