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.
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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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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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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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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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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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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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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