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.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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