"Title and ancestry render a good man more……" — Joseph Addison
"Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible."
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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 Ancestry Quotes
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one of 111 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was…
— Octavia Butler
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When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German…
— Nicolas Cage
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We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest…
— August Weismann
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Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins,…
— Jacques Monod
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All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and…
— Lynn Margulis
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Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.
— William Tyler
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I want to be a positive role model, especially for kids and Aboriginal people... When people see me, often all…
— Cathy Freeman
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And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world,…
— Alan Keyes
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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
— Alex Haley
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I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.
— Maya Rudolph
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For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that…
— John F. Kerry
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If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob…
— Clifford D. Simak
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