Maxioms by Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as read more
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.".
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. read more
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
