On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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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.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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