A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
JOSEPH ADDISONRides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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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 more requisite in business than despatch.
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