If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
JOSEPH ADDISONIn 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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