On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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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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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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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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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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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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