Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
JOSEPH ADDISON
JOSEPH ADDISON
Joseph Addison on hunting
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Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison 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 AddisonJoseph Addison How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison 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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If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
BjorkBjork I already had a good start. As a teenager in rural Maine, after we came to America, I had learned hunting, fishing, and trapping in the wilderness.
Bernd HeinrichBernd Heinrich I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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William CowperWilliam Cowper If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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