Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
JOSEPH ADDISONWere a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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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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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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