To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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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