Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISONWomen 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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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