To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
JOSEPH ADDISONHe who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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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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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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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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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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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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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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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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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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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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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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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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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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