"There is no virtue so truly great and…" — Joseph Addison
"There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice."
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324 Quotes by Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison has 324 quotes on this site.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience…
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable…
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism…
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret…
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
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More Godlike Quotes
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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior…
— Arnold Bennett
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I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.
— Nick Cave
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The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need…
— Nick Cave
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[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives…
— Charles Lindbergh
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One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.
— Thomas Carlyle
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War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can…
— Charles Sumner
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A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
— Sydney J. Harris
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The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The…
— William Wordsworth
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And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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