On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
JOSEPH ADDISONEvil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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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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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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