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 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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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