I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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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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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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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