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.
JOSEPH ADDISONOn you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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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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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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