Quotes by Joseph Addison

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

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  • A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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  • A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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  • A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.
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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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  • 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.
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  • Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
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  • As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
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  • Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.
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  • Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
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  • 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.
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  • Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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  • What dire effects from civil discord flow!
    Source: Cato
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  • Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; I old age is slow in both.
    Source: Cato
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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.
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  • What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.
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