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«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 afflictions which can befall us from without.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Body,
Conscience,
Soul
| Keywords:
afflictions, befall, befalling, befalls, befell, calamities, countervail, preserves, serenity
«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.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Cheerfulness
| Keywords:
cheerfulness, daylight, daylights, fills, flash, glitters, gloom, in the mind, lightning, mirth, perpetual, serenity, steady
«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.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
appetites, lust, propagate, propagated, propagates, propagating
«Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Beauty,
Conversation,
Nature,
Wit
| Keywords:
agreeable, amiable, countenance, good nature
«When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
sexier, sexiest, sexy
«Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue»
«A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Criticism
| Keywords:
beauties, communicate, concealed, critic, dwell, excellencies, imperfections, observation
«The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
high-pitched, pitch, sweetener, sweeteners
«The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
confederacies, confederacy, friendships, in league, leagues, League of, oft, vice
«Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Modesty
| Keywords:
amiable, contemptible
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