Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISON
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
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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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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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.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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