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.
JOSEPH ADDISONTo be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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