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One Quotes by Joseph Addison
- 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…
- True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few…
- Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
- 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…
- 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…
- An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with…
- Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation…
- A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.…
- A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.
- A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no…
- One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
- I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports…
- No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
- Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
- When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other…
- I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series…
- Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.
- The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.
- This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.
- Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be…
- Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself…
- One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
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