Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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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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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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