I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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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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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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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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