There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
JOSEPH ADDISONI 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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