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.
JOSEPH ADDISONHunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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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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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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