Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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