Maxioms by Joseph Addison
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard
man, who was a great scholar, read more
Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard
man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe
upon the point of a needle.
It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!--
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing read more
It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!--
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing after immortality?
Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,
O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
'Tis the divinity that stirs within us;
'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man.
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
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
