Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
JOSEPH ADDISONOne of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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