What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
JOSEPH ADDISONHunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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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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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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