Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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