It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
JOSEPH ADDISONCharity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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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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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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