Alleviate Quote by Joseph Addison

“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, and humanity.”

Joseph Addison

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When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.

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Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

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T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

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The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

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