There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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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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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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