Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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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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