Elation Quote by Joseph Addison Download Open image “Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.” — Joseph Addison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Elation Foolish Heart Luxury Men Money Pride Rich Riches
Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking,… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Wealth brings his ego, success comes along with pride, and your misfortune bring them to with you — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and desire; nor… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair. — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“She had never before suffered from claustrophobia, but the room seemed too small to contain Luke's elation, and she felt that she could be… — Esther Spurrill Jones Copy Share Image
The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay,… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
