Content thyself to be obscurely good.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhat sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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