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.
JOSEPH ADDISONAccording to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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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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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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