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 ADDISONThey were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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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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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own 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 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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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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