A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
JOSEPH ADDISONThere are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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