We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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