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


Joseph Addison

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JOSEPH ADDISON I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fru...
JOSEPH ADDISON I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot r...
JOSEPH ADDISON What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattere...
JOSEPH ADDISON To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great tru...
JOSEPH ADDISON True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, fr...
JOSEPH ADDISON The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
JOSEPH ADDISON A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed ...
JOSEPH ADDISON O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss,...
JOSEPH ADDISON From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.
JOSEPH ADDISON I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them f...
JOSEPH ADDISON And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r ...
JOSEPH ADDISON It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...
JOSEPH ADDISON To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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