Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
JOSEPH ADDISONA true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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