If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Joseph AddisonAdmiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
Joseph AddisonA solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
Joseph AddisonIt is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
Joseph Addison