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.
JOSEPH ADDISONSunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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