Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
JOSEPH ADDISONMen may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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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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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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