The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
JOSEPH ADDISONAn evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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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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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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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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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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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.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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