Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
JOSEPH ADDISONAn evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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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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