I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
JOSEPH ADDISONAll well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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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.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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