In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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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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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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Men 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.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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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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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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