Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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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.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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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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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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