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,
JOSEPH ADDISONArtificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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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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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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