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Joseph Addison quotes: Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
Joseph Addison quotes: The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections. The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.
Joseph Addison quotes: Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding. Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
Joseph Addison quotes: The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible. The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.
Joseph Addison quotes: Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity. Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.
Joseph Addison quotes: Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again. Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.
Joseph Addison quotes: Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Joseph Addison quotes: Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance. Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.
Joseph Addison quotes: All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
Joseph Addison quotes: A man's reputation draws eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him. A man's reputation draws eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him.
Joseph Addison quotes: Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Joseph Addison quotes: I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up. I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.
Joseph Addison quotes: Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
Joseph Addison quotes: Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Joseph Addison quotes: One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Joseph Addison quotes: The post of honour is a private station. The post of honour is a private station.
Joseph Addison quotes: Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire. Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire.
Joseph Addison quotes: Reading is to the mind what exerise is to the body. Reading is to the mind what exerise is to the body.
Joseph Addison quotes: If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic. If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.
Joseph Addison quotes: An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Joseph Addison quotes: With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
Joseph Addison quotes: Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least. Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.
Joseph Addison quotes: What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being? What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?
Joseph Addison quotes: Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind. Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.
Joseph Addison quotes: A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature. A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.
Joseph Addison quotes: Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind. Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.
Joseph Addison quotes: What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries? What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?
Joseph Addison quotes: T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle,And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle,
And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.
Joseph Addison quotes: Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Joseph Addison quotes: The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed. The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.
Joseph Addison quotes: Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world. Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
Joseph Addison quotes: Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion. Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
Joseph Addison quotes: A great large book is a great evil. A great large book is a great evil.
Joseph Addison quotes: The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison quotes: That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
Joseph Addison quotes: A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.
Joseph Addison quotes: Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years? Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?
Joseph Addison quotes: Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance. Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.
Joseph Addison quotes: It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour. It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.
Joseph Addison quotes: There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm. There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.
Joseph Addison quotes: Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Joseph Addison quotes: Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations. Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.
Joseph Addison quotes: Health and happiness give rise to each other. Health and happiness give rise to each other.
Joseph Addison quotes: In rising sighs and falling tears. In rising sighs and falling tears.
Joseph Addison quotes: They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it. They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
Joseph Addison quotes: There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride. There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.
Joseph Addison quotes: Let freedom never perish in your hands. Let freedom never perish in your hands.
Joseph Addison quotes: The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Joseph Addison quotes: The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Joseph Addison quotes: Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain. Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.
Joseph Addison quotes: Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable. Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.
Joseph Addison quotes: A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Joseph Addison quotes: There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy. There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.
Joseph Addison quotes: A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
Joseph Addison quotes: The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.
Joseph Addison quotes: The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger. The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.
Joseph Addison quotes: Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life. Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.
Joseph Addison quotes: We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.
Joseph Addison quotes: Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise. Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.
Joseph Addison quotes: Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
Joseph Addison quotes: Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
Joseph Addison quotes: Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.
Joseph Addison quotes: True fortitude is seen in great exploitsThat justice warrants, and that wisdom guides;And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction. True fortitude is seen in great exploits
That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides;
And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction.
Joseph Addison quotes: Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury. Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.
Joseph Addison quotes: A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude. A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
Joseph Addison quotes: Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
Joseph Addison quotes: The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure. The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.
Joseph Addison quotes: There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
Joseph Addison quotes: Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.
Joseph Addison quotes: He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor. He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
Joseph Addison quotes: On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate. On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
Joseph Addison quotes: Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship. Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
Joseph Addison quotes: Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.
Joseph Addison quotes: True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest. True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.
Joseph Addison quotes: Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man. Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
Joseph Addison quotes: Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
Joseph Addison quotes: My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
Joseph Addison quotes: The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane. The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.
Joseph Addison quotes: All of heaven we have below. All of heaven we have below.
Joseph Addison quotes: The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture. The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
Joseph Addison quotes: I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike. I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.
Joseph Addison quotes: Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art. Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.
Joseph Addison quotes: Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Joseph Addison quotes: If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use. If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.
Joseph Addison quotes: It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards. It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.
Joseph Addison quotes: The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. 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 quotes: T is the Divinity that stirs within us. T is the Divinity that stirs within us.
Joseph Addison quotes: Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man. Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
Joseph Addison quotes: From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow. From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.
Joseph Addison quotes: Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them. Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.
Joseph Addison quotes: The spacious firmament on high,And all the blue ethereal sky,And spangled heavens, a shining frame,Their great Original proclaim. The spacious firmament on high,
And all the blue ethereal sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim.
Joseph Addison quotes: Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity. Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
Joseph Addison quotes: Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Joseph Addison quotes: 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 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 quotes: Look what a little vain dust we are! Look what a little vain dust we are!
Joseph Addison quotes: 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. 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.
Joseph Addison quotes: A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being. A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being.
Joseph Addison quotes: We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them. We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them.
Joseph Addison quotes: Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency. Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
Joseph Addison quotes: Oh! think what anxious moments pass betweenThe birth of plots, and their last fatal periods. Oh! think what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods.

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