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.
JOSEPH ADDISONMan is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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