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Thinking Quotes by Joseph Addison
- 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…
- It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of…
- Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
- I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections…
- It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally…
- 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…
- Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.
- Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up…
- Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the…
- In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing…
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