There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
JOSEPH ADDISONA day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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