Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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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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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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A 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.
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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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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