Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
JOSEPH ADDISONWe are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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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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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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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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