I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
JOSEPH ADDISONTo be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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