Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
JOSEPH ADDISONTo 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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