Joseph Addison quotes on nature

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

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If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must delight in virtue.

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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

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To be perfectly just is an attribute in the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

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