It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
JOSEPH ADDISONA good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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