When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
JOSEPH ADDISONLet freedom never perish in your hands.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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