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.
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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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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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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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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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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