A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
JOSEPH ADDISONAdmiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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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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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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