The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
JOSEPH ADDISONTemperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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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.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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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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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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