Force Quote by Joseph Addison

“Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.” quote by Joseph Addison — Download Open image

“Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.”

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Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before…

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There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

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We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

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Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing their Zeal for the Publick, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same Family, or at least of the same Religion or Nation, but against those who are the open, professed, undoubted…

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

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When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.

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Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

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T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

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The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

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