To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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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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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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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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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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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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If 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.
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