This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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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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