Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
JOSEPH ADDISONCourage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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 not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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