A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
JOSEPH ADDISONA person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
JOSEPH ADDISONOur disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
JOSEPH ADDISONHonor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhat sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
JOSEPH ADDISONContent thyself to be obscurely good.
JOSEPH ADDISONIt 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.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
JOSEPH ADDISONHonour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
JOSEPH ADDISONThere are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
JOSEPH ADDISONReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISONit 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.
JOSEPH ADDISONArtificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
JOSEPH ADDISONHunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
JOSEPH ADDISONA contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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