A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
JOSEPH ADDISONCourage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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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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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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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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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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