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.
JOSEPH ADDISON
They 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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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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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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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 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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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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