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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

Joseph Addison

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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Bosom Brother Counselor Elder Experience Inspirational Life Make Relevance Success
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Act Create Dream Hope Life Possess Really Shadow
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Bondage Day Eternity Hour Liberty Virtue
Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Artificially Intelligence Natural People Stupid
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Affection Birthday Daughter Day Family Father Love Mother Son Wives
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Difference Good Greatest Men Mind Music Open Vanity Wise
Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Always Evil Great Ignorance Misery Yield
Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Elation Heart Luxury Men Pride
A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Doctors Humanity Kill Man Men Poor Ruffian Wealthy
It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Affection Business Extirpate Mind Regulate Virtue
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Book Exercise Mind Read Reading Strengthened
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Freedom Hand July Own Perish
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Absurd Attention Men Over Part Pass
According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
JOSEPH ADDISON

According Contradictory Definition Error Falsehood Nature
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Aggravation Always Consider Literature Man
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Become Greater Mankind May Morality Person Qualified World

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