Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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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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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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