Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
JOSEPH ADDISONLook what a little vain dust we are!
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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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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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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