Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
JOSEPH ADDISONMisery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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A 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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Our 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.
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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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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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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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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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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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it 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.
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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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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