What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
JOSEPH ADDISONOn you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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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.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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