A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
JOSEPH ADDISONLet freedom never perish in your hands.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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; 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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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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