I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
JOSEPH ADDISONSoon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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