A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
JOSEPH ADDISONHow is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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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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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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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
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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