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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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.
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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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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
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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.
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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.
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As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
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Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; I old age is slow in both.
Cato― Joseph Addison
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