There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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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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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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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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