Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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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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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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