Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
JOSEPH ADDISONPedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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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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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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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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