A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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When 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.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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