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• If men, who in their hearts are friends to a government, forbear giving it their utmost assistance against its enemies, they put it in the power of a few desperate men to ruin the welfare of those who are much superior to them in strength, number, and interest.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Men, Numbers

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer”, p.194

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• The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Lying, Block

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.82

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• Health and happiness give rise to each other.

  Joseph Addison

  Giving

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• A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

  Joseph Addison

  Jealous, Men, Envy

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1753). “The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads”, p.199

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• I'm weary of conjectures, - this must end 'em.
  Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life,
  My bane and antidote, are both before me:
  This in a moment brings me to an end;
  But this informs me I shall never die.
  The soul, secured in her existence, smiles
  At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
  The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
  Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years;
  But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
  Unhurt amidst the war of elements,
  The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

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  Life, Crush, Stars

  "Cato, A Tragedy". Play by Joseph Addison, 1713.

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• The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

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  Death, People, Dying

  Joseph Addison (1721). “Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89”, p.458

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• Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.

  Joseph Addison

  Play, Long, Dating

  Joseph Addison (1858). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: Withletters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.246

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• Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.

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  Men, Heaven, Eternity

  'Cato' (1713) act 5, sc. 1, l. 1

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• A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world: if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.

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  Honesty, Heart, Men

  "Addison's Essays".

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• The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

  Joseph Addison

  Sight, Aggravation, Parent

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• A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

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  Eye, Men, Reputation

  "The Spectator: with notes and illustrations".

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• A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials from the divine person who sent them on such a message.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, World, Messages

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.120

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• An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.

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  Honesty, Power, Men

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.88

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• I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

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  Sympathy, Indulge In, Giving

  Mr. Joseph Addison, Mr. James Thomson, Nathaniel Lee, William Shakespeare (1730). “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. III.”, p.62

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• For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.

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  Hands, Shining, Singing

  'The Spectator' no. 465, 23 August 1712, 'Ode'

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• The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

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  Secret, Divinity, Causes

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.182

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• There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.

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  Talent, Command, Eloquence

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of [the Right Honourable] Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 483-600. The Guardian. The lover. The present state of the war. The late trial and cenviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder, no. 1-30”, p.485

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• There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

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  Nature, Fall, Animal

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.460

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• If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

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  Nature, Delight, Cry

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.497

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• Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

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  Thank You, Daughter, Children

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• See in what peace a Christian can die.

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  Death, Christian, Peace

  Dying words to his stepson Lord Warwick, in Edward Young 'Conjectures on Original Composition' (1759)

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• We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.

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  Adversity, Punishment, Affliction

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.4518, Delphi Classics

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• Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

  Joseph Addison

  Health, Exercise, Science

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.64

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• Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

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  Science, Sight, Perfect

  The Spectator Vol. V No. 411 (1712)

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• Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

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  Writing, Men, Ordinary

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.8

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