Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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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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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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