Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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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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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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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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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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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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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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