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.
JOSEPH ADDISONTo this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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