It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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