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.
JOSEPH ADDISON
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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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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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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