Let freedom never perish in your hands.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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How 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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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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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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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