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.
JOSEPH ADDISONTheir is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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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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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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