We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
JOSEPH ADDISONEvil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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 no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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