Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISONTemperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with 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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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