The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
JOSEPH ADDISONHonor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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