Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
JOSEPH ADDISONAccording to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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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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