Look what a little vain dust we are!
JOSEPH ADDISONIt is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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