Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
JOSEPH ADDISONA solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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