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Pride goes before destruction ...

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

The friendships of the world a...

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

Admiration is a very short-liv...

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

A man must be both stupid and ...

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

Reading is to the mind what ex...

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

It is folly for an eminent man...

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

There is no greater sign of a ...

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

Courage that grows from consti...

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

The Fear of Death often proves...

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

If men would consider not so m...

If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

The man who will live above hi...

The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, 'The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.'.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

Education is a companion which...

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

When a man becomes familiar wi...

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

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.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

It is only imperfection that c...

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. -Joseph Addison.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

A misery is not to be measured...

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

Modesty is not only an ornamen...

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

An ostentatious man will rathe...

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

Our delight in any particular ...

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

Tradition is an important help...

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

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