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 ADDISONA contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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