Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
JOSEPH ADDISONLet freedom never perish in your hands.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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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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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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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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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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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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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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