There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
JOSEPH ADDISONAntidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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