Jesters do often prove prophets.
JOSEPH ADDISONHung 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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.
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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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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.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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