Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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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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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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