"A man who is furnished with arguments from……" — Joseph Addison
"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. - Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over the most obstinate and inflexible. - Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens; confounded their statesmen; struck their orators dumb; and at length argued them out of all their liberties."
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Joseph Addison
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324 Quotes by Joseph Addison
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience…
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable…
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism…
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret…
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a…
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My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me,…
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The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater…
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A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to…
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The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human…
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A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself…
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Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in…
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A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others
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History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
— Rick Warren
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...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere,…
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