The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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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.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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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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