A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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