Discretion Quote by Joseph Addison

“There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.”

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When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.

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Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

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T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

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The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

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The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

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