Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
JOSEPH ADDISONAdmiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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