When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
JOSEPH ADDISONRides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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 greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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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.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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