There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
JOSEPH ADDISONJesters do often prove prophets.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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 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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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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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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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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