Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
JOSEPH ADDISONCheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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