Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
JOSEPH ADDISONNothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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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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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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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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