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Joseph Addison Quotes

Joseph Addison

English essayist, poet, and dramatist

Nationality: English
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Type: Poet
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Birth: 1672-1719
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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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.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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See in what peace a Christian can die.
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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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The post of honor is a private station.
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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
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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.
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
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The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
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As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below.
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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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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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
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Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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