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.
JOSEPH ADDISONThree grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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