One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
JOSEPH ADDISONJesters do often prove prophets.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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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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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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