A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
JOSEPH ADDISONLove, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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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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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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