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Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison

English politician, writer and poet

Lived from: 1672 - 1719

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

Born: 1 may 1672 Died: 17 june 1719

  • Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
  • Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

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  • Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
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  • Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
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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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  • Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
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  • There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
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  • 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.
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  • True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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  • A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
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What are the most famous quotes from Joseph Addison?

The two most famous quotes from Joseph Addison are:

  • "Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness."
  • "Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty."

When did Joseph Addison live?

Joseph Addison was born in 1672 and died in the year 1719.