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.
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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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He 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.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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