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.
JOSEPH ADDISONTalking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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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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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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