It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
JOSEPH ADDISONTheir is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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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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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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If 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.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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