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Joseph Addison Inspirational Quotes (317)

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T is the Divinity that stirs within us.
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Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.
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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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When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.
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Talk not of love: thou never knew'st its force.
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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery.
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Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.
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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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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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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.
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Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.
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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
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We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.
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A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.
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