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.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf 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.
JOSEPH ADDISONTo be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
JOSEPH ADDISONCertain 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.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhat an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
JOSEPH ADDISONA solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
JOSEPH ADDISONAccording to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhether 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
JOSEPH ADDISONWords, 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.
JOSEPH ADDISONOn you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
JOSEPH ADDISONNothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISONOur 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 ADDISONRides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISONLet freedom never perish in your hands.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
JOSEPH ADDISONHow is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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