The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
JOSEPH ADDISONTo 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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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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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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