Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
JOSEPH ADDISONRiches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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