When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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