A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
JOSEPH ADDISONReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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