black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

Related Topics

Flattery Listener Person Skillful

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Disquietude End Evil Fear Life Men Sorrow Summed
If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Ensure Expose Flatter Flattery Hand Liable Men Other
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Act Create Dream Hope Life Possess Really Shadow
True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Animal Capable Compassion Creature Distress Philanthropy Sympathize
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Complain Excellence Imperfect Inspiring Perfect
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Conversation Friend Men Often Private Talk Thinking Weakest Wise
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Discretion Man Mind Quality Shining Useful
It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Affection Business Extirpate Mind Regulate Virtue
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Absurd Attention Men Over Part Pass
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 ADDISON

Advantageously Class Come Employ Long Maturity Really Women
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Advice Good Literature Nothing Reluctance
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Book Education Exercise Inspirational Read
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Above Another Essential Knowledge Man Men Next Raise
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Away Clear Friday Life Rust Sunday Week
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Editing Editors Storm
I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Difference Good Greatest Men Mind Music Open Vanity Wise

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes