Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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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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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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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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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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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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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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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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