Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
JOSEPH ADDISONCharity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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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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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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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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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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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