On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
JOSEPH ADDISONA 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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