Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
JOSEPH ADDISONThis not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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 that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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