It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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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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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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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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