True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
JOSEPH ADDISONJesters do often prove prophets.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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