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 ADDISONMan is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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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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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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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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