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.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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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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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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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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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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The 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.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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