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.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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