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(909 votes) Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(694 votes) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

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(675 votes) There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(671 votes) Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(671 votes) Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(666 votes) If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(609 votes) It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

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(597 votes) The post of honor is a private station.

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(588 votes) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

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(580 votes) Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(546 votes) The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(506 votes) No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(496 votes) To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(478 votes) Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

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(452 votes) What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(441 votes) Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(439 votes) That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(422 votes) 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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(411 votes) A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants...

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(410 votes) Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

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(405 votes) See in what peace a Christian can die.

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(405 votes) Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

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(400 votes) Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.

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(399 votes) I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(399 votes) Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

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(397 votes) There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

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(394 votes) The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(394 votes) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(385 votes) With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

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(383 votes) It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(382 votes) An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

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(379 votes) Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(377 votes) One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

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(373 votes) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

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(372 votes) Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(370 votes) There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. 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. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(368 votes) Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(367 votes) A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(364 votes) There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(359 votes) Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(358 votes) 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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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(358 votes) It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(347 votes) The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(347 votes) To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(345 votes) 'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(340 votes) Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(336 votes) 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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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(331 votes) A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(331 votes) The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

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1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(330 votes) Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.

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