The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Silence 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.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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