Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
JOSEPH ADDISONJealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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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 are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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