Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
JOSEPH ADDISONLove, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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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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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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