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.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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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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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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