Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISONIt is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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