Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
JOSEPH ADDISONA day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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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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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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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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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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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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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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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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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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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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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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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