Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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