Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
JOSEPH ADDISONA good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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