Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
JOSEPH ADDISONWit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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What 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.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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