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.
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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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