I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
JOSEPH ADDISONPedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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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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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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.
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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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