To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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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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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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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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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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