I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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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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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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