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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

Joseph Addison

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Above Another Essential Knowledge Man Men Next Raise
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Admire Discover Familiar Fresh Grow Immediately Life Object Passion Respect Upon
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Book Exercise Mind Read Reading Strengthened
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Anxiety Fate Fear Judgment Lord Waiting
It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Affection Business Extirpate Mind Regulate Virtue
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Change Fool Funny Inspirational Men Nature Ride
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Breed Converse Excess Good Men World
A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Applause Down Greatness Look Multitude Neglect Soul
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Godlike Justice Truly Virtue
When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
JOSEPH ADDISON

God Lost Mercy Rise Soul Transported View Wonder
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Funny Know Money People Primitive Work
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Apprehension Befallen Found Generally Happen Really Suffer
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Affection Birthday Daughter Day Family Father Love Mother Son Wives
Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Become Blacken Cuttlefish Disputant Himself Invisible Mind Unable Water
Content thyself to be obscurely good.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Content Good Obscurely Thyself
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Another Appreciation Burden Someone Thank You Volunteer World

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