Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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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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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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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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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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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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