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 ADDISONTrue benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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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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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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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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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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