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.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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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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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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