This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISONLook what a little vain dust we are!
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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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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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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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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