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.
JOSEPH ADDISONAmong 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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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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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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