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Admiration
Engrave this 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 perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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-Joseph Addison
Advertising
Engrave this Quote Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.
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Advice
Engrave this Quote There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Age
Engrave this Quote Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.
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Engrave this Quote 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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Animals
Engrave this 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.
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Argument & Debate
Engrave this Quote Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
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Engrave this Quote If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
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Attitude
Engrave this Quote Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
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Authors & Writing
Engrave this Quote Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Engrave this Quote The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.
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-Joseph Addison, "in the Spectator, no. 166"
Beauty
Engrave this Quote There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
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Books
Engrave this 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 unborn.
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Bravery
Engrave this 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.
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Business
Engrave this Quote There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
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Engrave this Quote 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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Censorship
Engrave this 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 every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
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Engrave this 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.
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Charity
Engrave this Quote With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
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Engrave this Quote I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.
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Confidence
Engrave this Quote Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
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Consequences
Engrave this 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 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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Contentment
Engrave this Quote A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Control
Engrave this Quote No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Criticism
Engrave this Quote Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Death
Engrave this Quote The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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Engrave this Quote See in what peace a Christian can die.
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Deception/Lying
Engrave this Quote Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
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Despair
Engrave this Quote I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
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Diets and Dieting
Engrave this 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.
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Doubt
Engrave this Quote Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
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Education
Engrave this Quote Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
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Engrave this Quote What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.
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Envy / Jealousy
Engrave this Quote The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
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Fame
Engrave this Quote There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Fashion
Engrave this Quote There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
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Father
Engrave this 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 our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Engrave this Quote 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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Friends
Engrave this Quote Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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Engrave this Quote Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
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Engrave this Quote The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Engrave this Quote The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Gardens
Engrave this Quote I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Happiness
Engrave this Quote Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Engrave this Quote Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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Engrave this Quote Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Engrave this 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.
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Engrave this Quote True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it 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.
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History
Engrave this Quote We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.
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Honor
Engrave this Quote Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
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Engrave this Quote The post of honor is a private station.
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Hope
Engrave this 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.
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Engrave this Quote Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.
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Humanity
Engrave this Quote Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
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Humility
Engrave this Quote Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
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Engrave this Quote 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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Hurt, Injury
Engrave this Quote Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Identity
Engrave this Quote We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
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Instinct
Engrave this 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.
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Insults
Engrave this Quote Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
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Engrave this 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.
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Justice
Engrave this Quote I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country
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-Joseph Addison, Guardian, No. 99, July 4, 1713
Engrave this Quote There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as Justice. Most of the other virtues are the virtues of created Beings, or accommodated to our nature as we are men. Justice is that which is practised by God himself, and to be practised in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and Omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it. The one, to discover every degree of uprightness or iniquity in thoughts, words and actions. The other, to measure out and impart suitable rewards and punishments.
As to be perfectly just is an attribute in the divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of a man. Such an one who has the publick administration in his hands, acts like the representative of his Maker, in recompencing the virtuous, and punishing the offender.
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-Joseph Addison, Guardian, No. 99, July 4, 1713
Knowledge
Engrave this Quote Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
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Laughter
Engrave this Quote One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
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Engrave this 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 it.
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Learning
Engrave this 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 becomes at length an entertainment.
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Life
We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.
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Marriage
Engrave this Quote A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
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Men & Women
Engrave this Quote As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
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Mistakes
Engrave this Quote Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
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Music
Engrave this Quote Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
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Engrave this Quote Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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Nature
Engrave this Quote 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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Organization
Engrave this Quote 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.
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Parenting
Engrave this Quote 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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Patience
Engrave this Quote Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Patriotism
Engrave this Quote What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
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Perfection
Engrave this Quote 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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Pleasure
Engrave this Quote 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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Engrave this Quote To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
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Prejudice
Engrave this Quote Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
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Engrave this Quote 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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Reading
Engrave this 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.
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Engrave this 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 in a voluminous writer.
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-Joseph Addison, "The Spectator", July 23, 1711
Revolution
Engrave this Quote Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
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Satisfaction
Engrave this Quote A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants...
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Serenity
Engrave this 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, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
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-Joseph Addison, "The Spectator, #381", May 17, 1712
Engrave this Quote A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us.
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Solitude
Engrave this Quote To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Soul
Engrave this Quote 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.
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Time
Engrave this Quote Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
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Virtue
Engrave this Quote Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
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Weather
Engrave this Quote A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
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Words
Engrave this Quote Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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Worth
Engrave this Quote 'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
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