A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
JOSEPH ADDISONMankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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