Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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