Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
JOSEPH ADDISONRiches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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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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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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