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 ADDISONTo be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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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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