True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
JOSEPH ADDISONContent thyself to be obscurely good.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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It 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.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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