When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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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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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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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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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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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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