Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Whether 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
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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