When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
JOSEPH ADDISONTheir is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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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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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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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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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.
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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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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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