There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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