Jesters do often prove prophets.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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