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.
JOSEPH ADDISONNo oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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