Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
JOSEPH ADDISONAnimals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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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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