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Very 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…
- Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
- I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
- Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very…
- I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is…
- When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many…
- Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and…
- A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire…
- I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.
- 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…
- If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture…
- Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often…
- Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to…
- This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.
- Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part…
- In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing…
- We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.
- Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept…
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