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.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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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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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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