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• There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making use of the most wicked artifices to support it.

  Joseph Addison

  Support, Wicked, Use

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator. The Guardian. The Lover. The present state of the war, and the necessity of augmentation, considered. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder”, p.421

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• Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

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  Action, Fame, Ultimate Happiness

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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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  Health, Serenity, Soul

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.253

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• Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

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  People, Giving, Flying

  Joseph Addison (1860). “The Tatler. The Guardian”, p.378

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• 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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  Clouds, Break Through, Serenity

  'The Spectator' no. 381, 17 May 1712

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• There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Giving, Gossip

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.30

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• Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.

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  Omnipotence, Justice, Perfection

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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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  Nature, Anger, Evil

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “Remarks on Italy. The Tatler”, p.323

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• The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

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  People, Months, England

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, William Bond (1766). “The Spectator”, p.310

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• There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

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  Humanity, World, Bears

  Joseph Addison (1729). “The spectator”, p.322

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• It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.

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  Love, Passion, Soul

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.7

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• A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.

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  Discrimination, Satire, Should

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• Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.

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  Sweet, Love Is, Happy Marriage

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.324

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• It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

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  Passing Away, Together, Cards

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1840). “Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others”, p.315

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• Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

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  Laughter, Soul, Mind

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.294

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• A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

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  Coats, Fine, Higher

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.192

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• The post of honour is a private station.

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  Literature, Honour, Posts

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

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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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  Book, Legacy, Generations

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.216

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• The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.

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  Wise, Time, Passion

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.266

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• Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

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  Perfection, Ornaments, Charity

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.35

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• For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.

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  Eye, Gay, Poetry

  'Letter from Italy' (1704)

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• The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

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  Pride, Color, Doe

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.250

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• The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, May, Polyphemus

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• Troops of heroes undistinguished die.

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  Hero, Battle, Troops

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.50

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• I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

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  Ocean, Noble, Immense

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.105

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