The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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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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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.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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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