A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISONA day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISONAmong 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 ADDISONMankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
JOSEPH ADDISONI value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
JOSEPH ADDISONLove, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
JOSEPH ADDISONReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISONYoung men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
JOSEPH ADDISONThat aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
JOSEPH ADDISONMen may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
JOSEPH ADDISONSunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
JOSEPH ADDISONTemperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe 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.
JOSEPH ADDISONHunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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