No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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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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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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