There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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