Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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 solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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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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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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