All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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