Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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.
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