Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
JOSEPH ADDISONTrue benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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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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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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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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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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