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Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

Joseph Addison
Alchemist, Desire, Contentment
Joseph Addison (1857). “Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.162

Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.

Joseph Addison
Strong, Men, Desire
Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.317

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition.

Joseph Addison
Soul, Desire, Fruition
Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1728). “The Spectator”, p.22

The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.

Joseph Addison
Sex, Passion, Desire
Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.236

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