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.
JOSEPH ADDISONRides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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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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