There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
Quote by Joseph Addison
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
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Joseph Addison Quotes
- What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
- Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
- The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
- To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
- There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
- What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
- A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
- Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
- If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
- Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Best Quotes
- Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.
- In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.
- I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.
- What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
- A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
- I'm way better in person than I am on things like Twitter. I know Twitter is the best and fastest way to connect with fans who really appreciate you but I'm still not cool with it - although I am trying! I try my best but I'm a one-on-one person and I don't want to tell people I'm on the toilet or I just brushed my teeth.
- You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.
- Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
- The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
- Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.