Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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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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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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