There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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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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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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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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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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