Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
JOSEPH ADDISONNo one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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