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.
JOSEPH ADDISONRiches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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