There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
JOSEPH ADDISONYoung men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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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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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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 man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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