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.
JOSEPH ADDISONAccording to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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 reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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