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.
JOSEPH ADDISONRides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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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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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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