An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
JOSEPH ADDISONJealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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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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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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