Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
JOSEPH ADDISONA day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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