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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.
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life
With dignity and grace, the best of circumstances.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool. There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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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.
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There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants; and secondly, how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
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To be perfectly just is an attribute in the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
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Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.
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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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The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.
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Sir Roger told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgement rashly, that much might be said on both sides.
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.
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Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all this is only fancy? If it is a dream, let me enjoy it.
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What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?
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The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the gratification of little minds and ungenerous tempers. A young man with this cast of mind cuts himself off from all manner of improvement.
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It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.
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Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Let guilt or fear
Disturb man's rest; Cato knows neither of them,
Indifferent in his choice, to sleep or die.
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The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature that it converts all he takes into its own nourishment.
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When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.
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Music can noble hints impart,
Engender fury, kindle love;
With unsuspected eloquence can move,
And manage all the man with secret art.
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Is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,
Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man
Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticise on the works of another who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and, among the good fruits of enmity, mentions this in particular, that by the reproaches which it casts upon us, we see the worst side of ourselves.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
E. W. Howe
Joseph Addison
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Born:
May 1, 1672
Died:
June 17, 1719
(aged 47)
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