Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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 contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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