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"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."
"When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically."
"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."
"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."
"Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."
Explore more quotes by Joseph Addison
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner."
"The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding."
"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."
"That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?"
"The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves."
"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
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