What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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