What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
JOSEPH ADDISONAccording to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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