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Joseph Addison Quotes

«To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.»
«Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated . . .»
«A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.»
«The Hand that made us is divine.»
«A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants . . .»
«A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.»
«Jesters do often prove prophets.»
«Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.»
«Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.»
«Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.»