Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere 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
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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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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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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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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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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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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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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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