No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
JOSEPH ADDISONI shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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