What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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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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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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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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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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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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