Quote by Joseph Addison
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person a

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. – Joseph Addison

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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. – Joseph Addison

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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. – Joseph Addison

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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. – Joseph Addison

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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. – Franz Kafka

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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand. – Aly Khan

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. – Albert Einstein

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The city disappears street by street as you enter it. – Ian Seed

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New York gave me hell for that Purple Swag, man. They didnt respect me until Peso. – ASAP Rocky

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Fix the problem, not the blame. – Japanese Proverb

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