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 ADDISONI value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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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