30,129 Quotes About Men

  • Author Joseph Addison
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    There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

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    There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.

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    It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.

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    A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.

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    No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

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    It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

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    Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

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    The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.

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