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Giving Quotes by Joseph Addison
- Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and…
- I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
- Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
- I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
- Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
- But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give…
- There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are…
- An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with…
- Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
- Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend,…
- The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that…
- I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series…
- Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things…
- The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies…
- Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into…
More Giving Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi