When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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