I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
JOSEPH ADDISONA contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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