Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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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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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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