I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
JOSEPH ADDISONNothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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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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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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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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