Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
JOSEPH ADDISONTrue happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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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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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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