Maxioms by Joseph Addison
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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
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 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.
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided read more
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
