On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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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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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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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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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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