There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
JOSEPH ADDISONAdmiration 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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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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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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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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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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