"There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity;……" — Joseph Addison
"There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness."
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Joseph Addison
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324 Quotes by Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison has 324 quotes on this site.
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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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More Concomitant Quotes
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Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure in scientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the…
— Roger Fry
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If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge,…
— Ken Wilber
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The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is…
— Antonin Scalia
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The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to…
— Daniel Pinchbeck
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In all serious disease states we find a concomitant low oxygen state... Low oxygen in the body tissues is a…
— Stephen Levine
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant…
— Salvatore J. Cordileone
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I would not go so far as to say that vaccination has never saved a person from smallpox. It is…
— Herbert M. Shelton
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The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the…
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now, to…
— Tom Lehrer
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Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which…
— C. V. Wedgwood
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