Look what a little vain dust we are!
JOSEPH ADDISONCheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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