There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
JOSEPH ADDISONHow is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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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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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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