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Rather Quotes by Joseph Addison
- A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such…
- An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
- Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore…
- A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
- A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than…
- The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies…
- 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…
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