They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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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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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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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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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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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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