Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
JOSEPH ADDISONAntidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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