The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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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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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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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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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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