All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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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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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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