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.
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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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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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 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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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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