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Whole Quotes by Joseph Addison
- Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
- The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
- It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
- A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
- It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally…
- 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…
- Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst…
- True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
- When an old Woman begins to doat [sic], and grow chargeable to a Parish, she is generally turned into a Witch,and fills the whole Country…
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