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.
JOSEPH ADDISONTemperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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I 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.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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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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