Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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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. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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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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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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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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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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