Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
JOSEPH ADDISONContent thyself to be obscurely good.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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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.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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