Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
JOSEPH ADDISONThree grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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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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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 solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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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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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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If 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.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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