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O ye powers that search The h...

O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

A good disposition is more va...

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

This party spirit has so ill ...

This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.

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Hope calculates its scenes fo...

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

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An idol may be undeified by m...

An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman.

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Knavery is ever suspicious of...

Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery.

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To be an atheist requires an i...

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

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If you wish to succeed in life...

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

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There is nothing that makes it...

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

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The stars shall fade away, the...

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

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True happiness arises, in the ...

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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A just and reasonable modesty ...

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

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Everything that is new or unco...

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

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The utmost extent of man's kno...

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

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Man is subject to innumerable ...

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

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Music, the greatest good that ...

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

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There is not so variable a thi...

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

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There is nothing more requisit...

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

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What sculpture is to a block o...

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

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The chief ingredients in the c...

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

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