I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
JOSEPH ADDISONA solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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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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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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