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.
JOSEPH ADDISONA 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.
JOSEPH ADDISONLove, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
JOSEPH ADDISONEvil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
JOSEPH ADDISONI shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
JOSEPH ADDISONPedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
JOSEPH ADDISONHow is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
JOSEPH ADDISONWere a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
JOSEPH ADDISONOne may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
JOSEPH ADDISONAccording to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
JOSEPH ADDISONA 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.
JOSEPH ADDISONI reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
JOSEPH ADDISONReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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