When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
JOSEPH ADDISONLook what a little vain dust we are!
JOSEPH ADDISONThe 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.
JOSEPH ADDISONLove, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
JOSEPH ADDISONRiches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
JOSEPH ADDISONTemperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere 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.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
JOSEPH ADDISONIt 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.
JOSEPH ADDISONJealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
JOSEPH ADDISONHealth and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
JOSEPH ADDISONCertain 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.
JOSEPH ADDISONNothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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