What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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