There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
JOSEPH ADDISONReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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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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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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