That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
JOSEPH ADDISONMusic, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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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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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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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.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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