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 ADDISONLove, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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