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A good disposition is more val...

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

When all thy mercies, O my God...

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

It must be so, Plato, thou rea...

It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

But in all despotic government...

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

When I behold a fashionable ta...

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

A reader seldom peruses a book...

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

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An honest man, that is not qui...

An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

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No one is more cherished in th...

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

Heaven is not to be looked upo...

Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

As addictions go, reading is a...

As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

Cleanliness may be defined to ...

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

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Certain is it that there is no...

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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We see the pernicious effects ...

We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them.

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Blesses his stars and thinks i...

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

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Soon as the evening shades pre...

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

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Content has a kindly influence...

Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes all murmuring, repining, and ingratitude toward that Being who has allotted us our part to act in the world. It destroys all inordinate ambition; gives sweetness to the conversation, and serenity to all the thoughts; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire of them.

Joseph Addison 715 quotes

Thy steady temper, Portius, Ca...

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

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When a man has been guilty of ...

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.

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Content thyself to be obscurel...

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

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Great Pompey's shade complains...

Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us!

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....