A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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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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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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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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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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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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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