We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
JOSEPH ADDISONCourage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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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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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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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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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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