If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
JOSEPH ADDISONOur 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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