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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Joseph Addison

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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Difference First Great Know Out Pick Suppress Word Thought
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Beauty Discover Impression Mastery Men Reading Stroke Stronger Writing
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Believe Own Side Stupid Uncharitable War
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Away Clear Friday Life Rust Sunday Week
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Comfort Consider Honor Old Remember Time Years Young
I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Difference Good Greatest Men Mind Music Open Vanity Wise
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Complain Excellence Imperfect Inspiring Perfect
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Confirm Generation Lie Lying Narrow Particular Son Wisdom
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Beauty Directly Inspirational More Soul
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Flattery Listener Person Skillful
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Aggravation Always Consider Literature Man
Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Honor Inexperience Men Mischief Real
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Bondage Day Eternity Hour Liberty Virtue
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Dull Next People Serious Step Stupid
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Charity Hand Heart Virtue
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Circumstance Enemies Goal Innovation Men Naturally

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