The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISONHonour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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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.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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