Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
JOSEPH ADDISONThat aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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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
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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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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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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