Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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