True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
JOSEPH ADDISONOn you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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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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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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