Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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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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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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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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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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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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