No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
JOSEPH ADDISONTrue 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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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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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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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