This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISONArtificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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 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.
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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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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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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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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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