Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
JOSEPH ADDISONA 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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