Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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 am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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