Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
JOSEPH ADDISONWere a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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