Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
JOSEPH ADDISONJealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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