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.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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