A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
JOSEPH ADDISONKnowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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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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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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