Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
JOSEPH ADDISONit would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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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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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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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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