It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
JOSEPH ADDISONThey were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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