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• A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms.

  Joseph Addison

  Beautiful, Sex, Women

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.3311, Delphi Classics

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• I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.

  Joseph Addison

  Thinking, Imagination, Sacred

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.353

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• Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part of his readers, but must be a very ill man if he could please himself.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Might, Miserable

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• When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.

  Joseph Addison

  Fall, Men, Guilt

  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.34

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• Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular.

  Joseph Addison

  Sex, Passion, Character

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.22

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• Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

  Joseph Addison

  Understanding, Doubt, Gold

  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.563

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• Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Watches, Purpose

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Freeholder: Or Political Essays”, p.209

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• Waning moons their settled periods keep, to swell the billows and ferment the deep.

  Joseph Addison

  Moon, Periods

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison”, p.206

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• It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.

  Joseph Addison

  Ambition, Men, Shining

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• Adulterers, in the first stages of the church, were excommunicated forever, and unqualified all their lives for bearing a part in Christian assemblies, notwithstanding they might seek it with tears, and all the appearances of the most unfeigned repentance.

  Joseph Addison

  Christian, Forever, Tears

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• When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him.

  Joseph Addison

  Lying, Fall, Science

  Joseph Addison (1827). “A Selection [- Second Selection] from the Paper of Addison: In the Spectator and Guardian, for the Use of Young Persons”, p.236

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• Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part of life.

  Joseph Addison

  Mean, Soldier, World

  1711 In The Spectator, no.1,1Mar.

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• The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that theThames was thenoblest river in Europe; that London Bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the Seven Wonders of the World; with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Reflection, Knights

  'The Spectator' no. 383, 20 May 1712

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• I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.

  Joseph Addison

  Fall, Winter, Roger

  'The Spectator' no. 269, 8 January 1712

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• Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.

  Joseph Addison

  Distance, Tired, Sight

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.4174, Delphi Classics

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• I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series of Employments during that Space of Time. This kind of Self-Examination would give them a true State of themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are about. One Day would rectifie the Omissions of another, and make a Man weigh all those indifferent Actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, must certainly be accounted for.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Space, Omission

  Joseph Addison (1804). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell”, p.271

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• Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.

  Joseph Addison

  Entertainment, Novelty, Usual

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.474

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• There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.

  Joseph Addison

  School, Profound, Depth

  Joseph Addison (1853). “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.624

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• Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

  Joseph Addison

  Fables, Instruction, Severity

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.24

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• Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

  Joseph Addison

  Marriage, Husband, Giving

  Joseph Addison (1867). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.22

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• Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

  Joseph Addison

  Beautiful, Light, Track

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.428

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• Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

  Joseph Addison

  Contempt

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

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• Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Life, Pain

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison”, p.283

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• Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

  Joseph Addison

  Humble, Humility, People

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• The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.

  Joseph Addison

  Silence, Delight, Made

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.208

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