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.
JOSEPH ADDISONA 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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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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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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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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