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 ADDISONLook what a little vain dust we are!
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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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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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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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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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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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