Look what a little vain dust we are!
JOSEPH ADDISONAdmiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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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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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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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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