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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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• 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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• There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

  ― Joseph Addison
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• A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

  ― Joseph Addison
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• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.

  ― Joseph Addison
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Subjects in these quotes:

• distributions
• cheerfulness
• countervails
• afflictions
• sculpture
• education

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