A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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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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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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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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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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