Content thyself to be obscurely good.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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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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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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