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Quotes of Joseph Addison1672-1719 British Essayist Poet Statesman
Joseph Addison Photo and Biography
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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. (knowledge)
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. (laughter)
The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. (jealousy)
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. (laughter)
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. (inconsistency)
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. (injury)
Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both. (insults)
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. (hope)
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency. (lies and lying)
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. (marriage)
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. (modesty)
There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. (instinct)
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. (organization)
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. (ostentation)
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. (perfection)
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. (music)
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. (music)
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. (pleasure)
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. (parents and parentin)
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. (patriotism)
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. (prejudice)
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. (suspicion)
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. (nature)
We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. (posterity)
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. (pride)
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