Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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.
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