There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
JOSEPH ADDISONSoon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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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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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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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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