I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhat sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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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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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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