When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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