Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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