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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Joseph Addison

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Disappointment Happiness Losses Pain Patience
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Divine Even Foresight Secret Step Trace Transition Unable
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Application Art Bestow Delight Exercise Science Study Upon
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Aloud Best Friend Friendship Thinking
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Above Another Essential Knowledge Man Men Next Raise
Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Art Beautifying Double Eye Laid Light Made Nature Planted Seat
When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Advantageously Class Come Employ Long Maturity Really Women
It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Affection Business Extirpate Mind Regulate Virtue
Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Honor Inexperience Men Mischief Real
Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Fetch Incongruity Out Wit
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Breed Converse Excess Good Men World
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Different Language Only Piece Translate Trying
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Beauty Directly Inspirational More Soul
Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Every Life Love Pulse Soul Vein
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Doe Nature Nothing Purpose Uselessly
I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Astonishment Competition Debate FAction Mankind Reflect Sorrow

Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

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