We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
JOSEPH ADDISONWomen were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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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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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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