Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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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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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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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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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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