Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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