Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
JOSEPH ADDISONThis not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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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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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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