An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
JOSEPH ADDISONWomen were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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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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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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