A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
JOSEPH ADDISONNo oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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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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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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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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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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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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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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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.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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