A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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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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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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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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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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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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