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
JOSEPH ADDISONI 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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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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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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