When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
JOSEPH ADDISONSunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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