Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
JOSEPH ADDISONArtificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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 great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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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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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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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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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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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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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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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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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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