If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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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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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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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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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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