No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Men 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.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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