Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
JOSEPH ADDISONTalking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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