Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
JOSEPH ADDISONReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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