A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
JOSEPH ADDISONHung 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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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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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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