That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
JOSEPH ADDISONSilence 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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it 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.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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