A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
JOSEPH ADDISONTrue benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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