If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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 to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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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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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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