There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
JOSEPH ADDISONAdmiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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