This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISONCharity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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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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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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The 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.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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