Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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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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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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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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