Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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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.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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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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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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