There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
JOSEPH ADDISONIt is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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