When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
JOSEPH ADDISONOne may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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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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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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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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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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