There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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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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Words, 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.
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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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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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