Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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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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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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