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.
JOSEPH ADDISONA contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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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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