On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
JOSEPH ADDISONNo one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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 man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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