In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Joseph Addison Quotes

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.