Joseph Addison Quotes About Gold

Quotes about: Gold

• A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. - Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over the most obstinate and inflexible. - Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens; confounded their statesmen; struck their orators dumb; and at length argued them out of all their liberties.

  Joseph Addison

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Men

• A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

  Joseph Addison

  Gold, Fortune, Disposition

• Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

  Joseph Addison

  Understanding, Doubt, Gold

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.563

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