Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
JOSEPH ADDISONOne may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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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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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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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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