Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
JOSEPH ADDISONSilence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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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.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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