it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
JOSEPH ADDISONTalking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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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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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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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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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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