What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
JOSEPH ADDISONMusic, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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