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50 Joseph Addison Quotes & Sayings
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50 Joseph Addison Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 1 May 1672. Died: 17 June 1719 |
Essayist
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Poet
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Playwright
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Politician
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
Joseph Addison
Hours
Wise man
Ideas
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
Joseph Addison
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.
Joseph Addison
Jealousy
Pain
Feels
Loves
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Tool
Living
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Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind.
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Cheerfulness
Daylight
Mind
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
Joseph Addison
Nothing
Receive
Relunctance
Advice
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Joseph Addison
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
Joseph Addison
Books
Legacies
Mankind
Generation
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
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Sculpture
Marble
Education
Soul
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise.
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Deserve
Praise
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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.
Joseph Addison
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.
Joseph Addison
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
Joseph Addison
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.
Joseph Addison
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.
Joseph Addison
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.
Joseph Addison
Man
Believes
Virtue
Truth
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Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
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Quick
Sensitivity
Understanding
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He who hesitates is lost.
Joseph Addison
Hesitates
Lost
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Exempt
Passions
Tormented
Solitude
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
Joseph Addison
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Joseph Addison
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.
Joseph Addison
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
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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
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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
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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.
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Happiness
Life
Love
Hope
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.
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Cherished
World
Someone
Burdens
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Cheerfulness
Health
Mind
Body
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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.
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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.
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Crime
Contemtible
World
Inconsistency
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Easy
Circumstances
Enemies
Innovations
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Reading
Mind
Excercise
Body
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Courage
Thing
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Man
Consider
Wants
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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.
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Important
Difficult
Mind
Master
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Music
Good
Mortals
Heaven
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Knowledge
Virtue
Truly
Raises
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Nothing
Faith
Observance
Morality
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion
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Mind
Man
Power
Dominion
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Artificial
Intelligence
Natural
Stupidity
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Evil intention
Perverts
Actions
Sins
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Riches
Pride
Luxury
Heart
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Nature
Purpose
Uselessly
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Charity
Virtue
Heart
Hands
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