Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
JOSEPH ADDISONHunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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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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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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