Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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There 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
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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