Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
JOSEPH ADDISONThis not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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 another.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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