On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
JOSEPH ADDISONHunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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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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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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.
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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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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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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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