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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

Joseph Addison
Men, Evil, Secret

Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.

Joseph Addison
Fear, Men, Evil
Joseph Addison (1858). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: Withletters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.505

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

Joseph Addison
Ignorance, Yield, Evil

An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

Joseph Addison
Evil, Action, Sin
Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.92

We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy is to raise Commiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful.

Joseph Addison
Successful, Men, Evil
Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.5878, Delphi Classics

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

Joseph Addison
Evil, Anxiety, Pressure
Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.265

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

Joseph Addison
Nature, Anger, Evil
Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “Remarks on Italy. The Tatler”, p.323

A great large book is a great evil.

Joseph Addison
Book, Evil

I have often reflected within myself on this unaccountable humor in womankind of being smitten with everything that is showy and superficial, and on the numberless evils that befall the sex from this light fantastical disposition.

Joseph Addison
Sex, Light, Evil
Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.263

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