They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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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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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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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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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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