On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
JOSEPH ADDISONLove, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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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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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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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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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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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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