Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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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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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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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