There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
JOSEPH ADDISONNothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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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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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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