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.
JOSEPH ADDISONLet freedom never perish in your hands.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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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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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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