If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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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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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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