Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
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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.Joseph Addison
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.
Joseph Addison
In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.
Joseph Addison
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections.
Joseph Addison
Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
Joseph Addison
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
Joseph Addison
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