"There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies……" — Joseph Addison
"There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity."
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324 Quotes by Joseph Addison
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience…
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable…
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism…
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret…
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
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More Abstruse Quotes
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Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to…
— David Hume
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Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit…
— Galileo Galilei
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If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim…
— Mark Twain
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Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature.…
— Unknown Author
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Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this,…
— Karen Armstrong
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The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the…
— Samuel Johnson
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Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse…
— Benjamin Graham
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Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize…
— Georges Lemaitre
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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not…
— Michel de Montaigne
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For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French…
— James Fenton
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It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever…
— Galileo Galilei
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