The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISONTalking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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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 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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