Quotes by Joseph Addison with honor

Joseph Addison

English politician, writer and poet

Lived from: 1672 - 1719

Category: Politics | Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom

Born: 1 may 1672 Died: 17 june 1719

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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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• 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.

  ― Joseph Addison
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• The post of honor is a private station.

  ― Joseph Addison
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• Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

  ― Joseph Addison
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Subjects in these quotes:

• obscurely
• declining
• consider
• remember
• thousand
• comfort

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