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All of heaven we have below.

Joseph Addison

Music, Heaven

'A Song for St Cecilia's Day'

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Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.

Joseph Addison

Prayer, Grief, Soul

Joseph Addison (1749). “The Spectator”, p.69

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Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart.

Joseph Addison

Heart, Sunshine, Faces

Joseph Addison (1808). “Cato. A Tragedy. London 1808”, p.17

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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

Joseph Addison

Numbers, Giving, Advantage

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.44

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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 wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Joseph Addison

Birthday, Crush, Easter

Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.288

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It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?

Joseph Addison

Life, Laughter, Men

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Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency, especially when it regards religion or party. In either of these cases, though a man perhaps does but his duty in changing his side, he not only makes himself hated by those he left, but is seldom heartily esteemed by those he comes over to.

Joseph Addison

Real, Party, Eye

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.30

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Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow,
And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!

Joseph Addison

Complaining, Pompey, Shade

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

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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

Joseph Addison

Book, Legacy, Genius

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

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A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.

Joseph Addison

Perfect, Tragedy, Human Nature

1711 In The Spectator, no.39.

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Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind.

Joseph Addison

Children, Father, Exercise

Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.187

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The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

Joseph Addison

Laughter, Men, Littles

Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.147

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When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

Joseph Addison

Men, Goddess, Familiar

Joseph Addison (1729). “The Spectator”, p.286

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I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

Joseph Addison

Speech, Nine, Pounds

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

Life, Exercise, Ideas

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Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

Joseph Addison

Modesty, Virtue, Betray

Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.560

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It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division. [as they realise their problems could be worse!]

Joseph Addison

Gratitude, Fall, Thinking

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.255

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Love is a second life.

Joseph Addison

Love, Love Life, Love Is

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The spacious firmament on high,
And all the blue ethereal sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim.

Joseph Addison

Blue, Sky, Shining

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

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A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being.

Joseph Addison

Ideas, Space, Almighty

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Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunities of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.

Joseph Addison

Party, Character, Opportunity

Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.46

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It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

Joseph Addison

Men, Connections, Odd

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.407

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Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than those who have employed themselves in satire, under whatever dress it may appear.

Joseph Addison

Dresses, May, Satire

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Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

Joseph Addison

Men, Satisfaction, Infirmity

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We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.

Joseph Addison

Art, Nature, Pleasant

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: In Six Volumes”, p.348

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Born: May 1, 1672
Died: June 17, 1719
Occupation: Essayist
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