This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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