A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISONCheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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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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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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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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