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.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhat sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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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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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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