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Mankind Quotes by Joseph Addison
- Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of…
- As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of men.
- Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
- It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or…
- The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that…
- It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally…
- Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind
- But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.
- There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its…
- Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not…
- Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself…
- 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…
More Mankind Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,… — Jane Austen
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their… — Douglas Adams
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams