Joseph Addison Short Quotes

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Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

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Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.

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Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.

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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

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As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.

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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

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Foul with stains of gushing torrents and descending rains.

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Better to die ten thousand deaths,
Than wound my honour.

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There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

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Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

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I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian may die.

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Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

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That charity which is the perfection and ornament of religion.

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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

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Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.

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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and some in prosperity.

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These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.

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Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.

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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

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There is not so variable a thing in Nature as a lady's head-dress.

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What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

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The wildness of those compositions which go by the name of essays.

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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

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A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

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Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.

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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

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