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.
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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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 contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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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,
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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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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