Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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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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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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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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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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