“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.”
Wedding
“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.”
ImaginationAll Quotes by Joseph Addison
“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.”
Age“Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.”
Age“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.”
Nature“Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.”
Learning“There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.”
Business“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”
Education“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.”
Imagination“The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.”
Knowledge“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
Happiness“Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.”
Music“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.”
Hope“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”
Friendship“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.”
Best“The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.”
Nature“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.”
Nature“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”
Sympathy“Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.”
Power“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”
Friendship“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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