When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
JOSEPH ADDISONTheir is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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