They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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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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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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