Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISONOne of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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