Joseph Addison
Quotations
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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.” -Joseph Addison
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“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.” -Joseph Addison
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“The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.” -Joseph Addison
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“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.” -Joseph Addison
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“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” -Joseph Addison
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“Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.” -Joseph Addison
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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.” -Joseph Addison
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“The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.” -Joseph Addison
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“Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.” -Joseph Addison
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“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” -Joseph Addison
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“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” -Joseph Addison
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“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.” -Joseph Addison
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“Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.” -Joseph Addison
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“The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.” -Joseph Addison
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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.” -Joseph Addison
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“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.” -Joseph Addison
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“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.” -Joseph Addison
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“A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.” -Joseph Addison
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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
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“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.” -Joseph Addison
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“To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.” -Joseph Addison
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“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” -Joseph Addison
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“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.” -Joseph Addison
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“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.” -Joseph Addison
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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.” -Joseph Addison
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“Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.” -Joseph Addison
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“There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.” -Joseph Addison
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“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.” -Joseph Addison
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“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.” -Joseph Addison
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. – Joseph Addison
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