Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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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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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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