Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
JOSEPH ADDISONLook what a little vain dust we are!
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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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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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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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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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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