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 ADDISONNo oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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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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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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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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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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