Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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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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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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