Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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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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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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Encourage innocent amusement.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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