Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
JOSEPH ADDISONRides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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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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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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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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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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