No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
JOSEPH ADDISONTo be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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