We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
JOSEPH ADDISONWit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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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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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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