An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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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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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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