It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
JOSEPH ADDISONMan is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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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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