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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Joseph Addison

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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Favor Important Industry Ingenuity Mankind Purchaser
When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
JOSEPH ADDISON

God Lost Mercy Rise Soul Transported View Wonder
Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Disquietude End Evil Fear Life Men Sorrow Summed
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Form Hypocrisy Knowledge Learning Pedant Power
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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Discover Enjoy Friend Friendship Highest Real Secret
The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Bent Come Inclination Length Present Reason Regard Since Voice
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Character Complaints Hard Honesty Luck Man Men Prudent Strictly Work
it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Apprehension Befallen Found Generally Happen Really Suffer
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Flattery Listener Person Skillful
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.
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Labor Noble Nothing Pain Purchase Real True Valuable
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Conversation Friend Men Often Private Talk Thinking Weakest Wise
Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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Appear Eye Inconsistency Little Man Real World
The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Know Knowledge Literature Men Nothing Utmost
There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
JOSEPH ADDISON

Accompanied Exercise Gratitude Inward Pleasing Satisfaction Thank You Thankful
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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Complain Excellence Imperfect Inspiring Perfect
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Divine Even Foresight Secret Step Trace Transition Unable

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