Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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