Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
JOSEPH ADDISONAccording to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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