Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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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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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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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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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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