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.
JOSEPH ADDISONAll well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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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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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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