A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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He 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.
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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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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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