Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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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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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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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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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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