Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
JOSEPH ADDISONNothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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