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.
JOSEPH ADDISONLook what a little vain dust we are!
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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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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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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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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