Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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 nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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