Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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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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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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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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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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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