Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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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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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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