Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
JOSEPH ADDISONTrue benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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