If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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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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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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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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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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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