There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
JOSEPH ADDISONArtificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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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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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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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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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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