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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Quote by Joseph Addison about miracle

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Quote by Joseph Addison about old, olderness, day

I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein...

Quote by Joseph Addison about education, body, soul, human imperfections

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Quote by Joseph Addison about garden, value, being

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Quote by Joseph Addison about despair

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 than it really is.

Quote by Joseph Addison about shadow, dream, hope, life

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing...

Quote by Joseph Addison about genius, man

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

Quote by Joseph Addison about stores, greatness, country, man

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 antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Quote by Joseph Addison about weakness, people, age, olderness, world, man

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Quote by Joseph Addison about defects, quiet, perfection

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Quote by Joseph Addison about clowns

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Quote by Joseph Addison about violence, justice, force, police

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 life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one...

Quote by Joseph Addison about sadness, humanity, common sense, nature, man, life

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Quote by Joseph Addison about common sense, change, man, sense, nature

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Quote by Joseph Addison about shame, merit

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Quote by Joseph Addison about mind, moment

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Quote by Joseph Addison about modesty, virtue

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Quote by Joseph Addison about music, good, good luck

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Quote by Joseph Addison about weakness, nature, human imperfections

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Quote by Joseph Addison about authority