The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
JOSEPH ADDISONThey were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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