When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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