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
JOSEPH ADDISONA man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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