True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
JOSEPH ADDISONSunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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