Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
JOSEPH ADDISONThey were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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