The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Animals, 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.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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