Tag: Joseph Addison

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

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One’s religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.

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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

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Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

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The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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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.

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There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

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