The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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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.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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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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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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