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.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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 solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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