A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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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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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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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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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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