An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
JOSEPH ADDISONOn you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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 should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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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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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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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