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Quote by Joseph Addison
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prospe

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. – Joseph Addison

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. – Joseph Addison

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Admiration
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We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. – Joseph Addison

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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. – Aristotle

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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. – Aristotle

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. – Henry David Thoreau

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