Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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