Epitaph Quote by Joseph Addison Download Open image “What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.” — Joseph Addison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Epitaph Giving Left Lost Possessed Remains
What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever. — Ethel Percy Andrus Copy Share Image
What I gave I have, what I spent I had, what I left I lost by not giving it. — Thomas Ravenscroft Copy Share Image
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
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What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever. — David McGee Copy Share Image
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Give back the things you have been entrusted with to the person who entrusted them to you. — Babloo 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
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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
Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
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Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image