There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
JOSEPH ADDISONHow is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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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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