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
JOSEPH ADDISONA true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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