If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
JOSEPH ADDISONArtificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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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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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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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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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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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