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Quotes of Joseph Addison1672-1719 British Essayist Poet Statesman
Joseph Addison Photo and Biography
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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. (patience)
As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men. (men and women)
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. (rivalry)
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. (studying)
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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought. (time and time manage)
Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible. (slander)
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. (solitude)
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. (stardom)
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. (books - reading)
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. (authority)
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected. (consequences)
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. (courage)
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. (appetite)
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. (argument)
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 - reading)
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. (benefactors)
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. (animals)
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants... (fulfillment)
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. (age and aging)
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. (attitude)
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. (admiration)
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. (beauty)
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. (bigotry)
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. (amusement)
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. (virtue)
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