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
Quotes 81 till 95 of 95.
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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!
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Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; I old age is slow in both.
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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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