No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
JOSEPH ADDISONReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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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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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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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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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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