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.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhat an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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