There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhat an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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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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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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