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.
JOSEPH ADDISONOne may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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 good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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 no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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