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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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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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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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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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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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