Joseph Addison Quotes

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• What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

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  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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  Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

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  Appreciation, Volunteer, World

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• Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

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  Jealousy, Pain, Men

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Spectator”, p.356

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• The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

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  Flattery, Persons, Skillful

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• Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

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  Stupid, People, Natural

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• If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Content thyself to be obscurely good.

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  Thyself

  'Cato' (1713) act 4, sc. 1, l. 319

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• All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

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  Morning, Tea, Bread

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.129

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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  Inspirational, Education, Book

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270

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• Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

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  Happiness, Patience, Pain

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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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  Happiness, Inspiration, Health

  "Pray It Forward:daily Meditations". Book by Rowena Holloway and Joyce Bullion, p. 25, 2007.

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• The ways of heaven are dark and intricate,
  Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors;
  Our understanding traces them in vain,
  Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search;
  Nor sees with how much art the windings run,
  Nor where the regular confusion ends.

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  Running, Art, Dark

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.481

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• Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

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  Heart, Hands, Charity

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.386

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• The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

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  Friendship, Real, Life Is

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• A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

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  Men, Aggravation, Literature

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator; with Notes, and a General Index”, p.346

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• The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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  Friendship, Real Friends, Secret

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• One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

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  Powerful, Mind, Important

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• A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

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  Blessed, Blessing, Men

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.300

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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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  War, Stupid, Believe

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

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  Inspirational, Beauty, Soul

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• Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

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  Funny, Humor, Criticism

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• There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.

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  Truth, Plato, Errors

  Joseph Addison (1857). “Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.144

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• If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

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  Success, Perseverance, Guardian Angel

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• The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.

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  Writing, Lapses, Genius

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.454

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