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.
JOSEPH ADDISONHung 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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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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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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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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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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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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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