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QUOTE: 'Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: ''Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: Men and [...]

QUOTE: 'A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: '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.' --Addison, Joseph [...]

QUOTE: '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.' --Addison, [...]

QUOTE: '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.' --Addison, Joseph [...]

QUOTE: 'It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.' --Addison, [...]

QUOTE: 'Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: '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 [...]

QUOTE: '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.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: '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 [...]

QUOTE: 'There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: '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 [...]

QUOTE: 'Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: Books [...]

QUOTE: 'A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: '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 [...]

QUOTE: 'There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: Death and [...]

QUOTE: 'See in what peace a Christian can die.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: Death and [...]

QUOTE: 'To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: Critics and [...]

QUOTE: '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.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: '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.' --Addison, [...]

QUOTE: 'A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: '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 [...]

QUOTE: 'A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and [...]

QUOTE: 'What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: Editing and [...]

QUOTE: '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 [...]

QUOTE: 'Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: Lies and [...]

QUOTE: '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 [...]

QUOTE: '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, [...]

QUOTE: '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 [...]

QUOTE: 'One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.' --Addison, Joseph SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: '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.' [...]