There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
JOSEPH ADDISONLove is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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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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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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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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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