There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhether 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
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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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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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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