Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity…

Joseph Addison
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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
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The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome. ✨ Joseph Addison (1825). Cato: A Tragedy, in Fi … ▶
A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another. ✨ Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel … ▶
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before … ▶
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. ✨ Joseph Addison (1839). Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays o … ▶
When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise. ✨ Joseph Addison (1868). The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Conte … ▶

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