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.
JOSEPH ADDISONThat aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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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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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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