This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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