Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISONMisery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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