No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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