There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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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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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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