I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
JOSEPH ADDISONCharity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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