English - Writer | May 1, 1672 - June 17, 1719
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Joseph Addison
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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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The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
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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.
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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