A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
JOSEPH ADDISONYoung men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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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.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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