Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
JOSEPH ADDISONHung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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