No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
JOSEPH ADDISONMen may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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 I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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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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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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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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