To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
JOSEPH ADDISONAccording to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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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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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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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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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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