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.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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