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.
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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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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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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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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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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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