Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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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.
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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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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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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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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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