There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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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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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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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.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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