If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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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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.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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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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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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