One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
JOSEPH ADDISONHunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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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 contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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