Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
JOSEPH ADDISONI never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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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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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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