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.
JOSEPH ADDISONSoon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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