Jesters do often prove prophets.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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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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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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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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