Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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