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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount (Joseph Addison Quotes)
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves (Joseph Addison Quotes)
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight (Joseph Addison Quotes)
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement (Joseph Addison Quotes)
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction (Joseph Addison Quotes)
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us (Joseph Addison Quotes)
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts (Joseph Addison Quotes)
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude (Joseph Addison Quotes)
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express (Joseph Addison Quotes)
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species (Joseph Addison Quotes)
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 relish of those arts (Joseph Addison Quotes)
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate (Joseph Addison Quotes)
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment (Joseph Addison Quotes)
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull (Joseph Addison Quotes)
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 (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it (Joseph Addison Quotes)
An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience (Joseph Addison Quotes)
There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning (Joseph Addison Quotes)
The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers (Joseph Addison Quotes)
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion (Joseph Addison Quotes)
The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace (Joseph Addison Quotes)
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire (Joseph Addison Quotes)
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age (Joseph Addison Quotes)
The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment (Joseph Addison Quotes)