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Us Quotes by Joseph Addison
- Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see…
- We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
- A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails…
- It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or…
- Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the…
- If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
- Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and among the good fruits of enmity, mentions this…
- 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…
- It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and…
- If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture…
- Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us!
- For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
- 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…
- Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary…
- Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than…
- A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And…
- Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.
- In life we don't know how many Love's the Lord will send us, but we do know that one day he will send the right…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong