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
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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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