Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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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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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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