Maxioms by Joseph Addison
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow read more
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these
great masters, is this, that they can multiply their read more
The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these
great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals;
or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they
please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.
Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
