Let freedom never perish in your hands.
JOSEPH ADDISONI shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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