There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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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.
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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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