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"50 Joseph Addison Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 1 May 1672. Died: 17 June 1719 | Essayist | Poet | Playwright | Politician |

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

Hours Wise man Ideas
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

Success Life Perseverance Friend
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Jealousy Pain Feels Loves
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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Reading Tool Living Good life
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Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind.

Cheerfulness Daylight Mind
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Nothing Receive Relunctance Advice
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Contented mind Blessing Man World
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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

Books Legacies Mankind Generation
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Sculpture Marble Education Soul
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise.

Deserve Praise
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Man's Care Reproaches Heart
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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Indulge Sorrows Fury Despair
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We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Something Posterity Fain
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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

Human life Friendship Enjoyment Discover
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Success Experience Caution Hope
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A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Misery Nature Evil Temper
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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.

Man Believes Virtue Truth
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Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Quick Sensitivity Understanding
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He who hesitates is lost.

Hesitates Lost
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

Exempt Passions Tormented Solitude
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Nothing Directly Soul Beauty
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

Valuable Man Attention Infirmities
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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.

Question Pleasures Life Happy
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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.

Imperfection Gentle Quiet Defects
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Sunshine Smiles Humanity Life's
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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.

Life Reading Useful Authors
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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 proper figures

Blessings Pains Losses Patience
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True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation

Compassion Existence Creature Sensation
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station

Content Good Honor Private
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Happiness Life Love Hope
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.

Cherished World Someone Burdens
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Cheerfulness Health Mind Body
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Defense Criticism Obscurity
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

Love Life Grows Soul
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Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Crime Contemtible World Inconsistency
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Easy Circumstances Enemies Innovations
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Reading Mind Excercise Body
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Courage Thing
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Man Consider Wants
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Health Cheerfulness Beget
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

Important Difficult Mind Master
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Music Good Mortals Heaven
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Knowledge Virtue Truly Raises
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

Nothing Faith Observance Morality
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion

Mind Man Power Dominion
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

Artificial Intelligence Natural Stupidity
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

Evil intention Perverts Actions Sins
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Riches Pride Luxury Heart
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

Nature Purpose Uselessly
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
Charity Virtue Heart Hands
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Joseph Addison Quotes & Sayings