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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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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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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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