"Hope calculates its scenes for a long and……" — Joseph Addison
"Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor."
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Joseph Addison
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324 Quotes by Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison has 324 quotes on this site.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience…
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable…
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism…
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret…
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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…
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More Beggary Quotes
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
— William Shakespeare
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There's beggary in love that can be reckoned
— William Shakespeare
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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And…
— William Shakespeare
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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or…
— John Milton
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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are…
— Simone Weil
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But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they…
— David Hume
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CLEOPATRA: If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY: There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.…
— William Shakespeare
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Idleness is the key of beggary.
— Charles Spurgeon
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If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.
— Benjamin Franklin
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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or…
— John Milton
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Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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