Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
JOSEPH ADDISONHe who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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