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 ADDISONWhether 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
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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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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