Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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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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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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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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