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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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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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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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