One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
JOSEPH ADDISONEvil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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