There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
JOSEPH ADDISONIt is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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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.
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