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.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhat sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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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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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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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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