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Human Quotes by Joseph Addison
- The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
- Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
- Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence,…
- I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher…
- Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not…
- Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
- The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
- What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
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