Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
JOSEPH ADDISONTrue benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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