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,
JOSEPH ADDISONThe utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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