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.
JOSEPH ADDISONTemperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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