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Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity (Joseph Addison Quotes)
A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials from the divine person who sent them on such a message (Joseph Addison Quotes)
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, I think the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Of his shallow species there is not a more unfortunate, empty and conceited animal than that which is generally known by the name of a critic (Joseph Addison Quotes)
No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning (Joseph Addison Quotes)
It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances (Joseph Addison Quotes)
There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure (Joseph Addison Quotes)
If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between them and that of the fool; there are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Oh, liberty! Thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, and smiling plenty leads thy wanton train (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to win all the duties of life (Joseph Addison Quotes)
A cobbler,... Produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he’ll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle (Joseph Addison Quotes)
The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration (Joseph Addison Quotes)
It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him (Joseph Addison Quotes)
There is no passion which steals into the heart more imperceptibly, and covers itself under more disguises, than pride (Joseph Addison Quotes)
There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to vilify his enemy (Joseph Addison Quotes)
How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party? (Joseph Addison Quotes)
A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman (Joseph Addison Quotes)
The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader as those accounts which we meet with of the death of eminent persons and of their behavior in that dreadful season (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one and frost out of the other (Joseph Addison Quotes)
A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a food light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished, would men alleviate the general curse they lie under, by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity (Joseph Addison Quotes)
The jealous man’s disease is of so malignant a nature that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it (Joseph Addison Quotes)
A friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one (Joseph Addison Quotes)
The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease (Joseph Addison Quotes)