Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
JOSEPH ADDISONNo one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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