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• Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

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  Birthday, Mother Daughter, Fathers Day

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• Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Thinking

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.293

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• Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.

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  Imagination, Perfection, Support

  Joseph Addison (1975). “Essays in Criticism and Literary Theory”, Harlan Davidson

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• Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

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  Book, Reading, Exercise

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1785). “The Tatler: Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq”, p.371

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• Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

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  Laughter, Men, Mirth

  'The Spectator' no. 494, 26 September 1712

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• Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

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  Life, Friday, Sunday

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1747). “The Spectator”, p.176

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• Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.

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  Water, Mind, Invisible

  The Spectator no. 476, 5 Sept. 1712

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• The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

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  Friendship, League, Vices

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.201

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• Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

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  Hypocrisy, Pedants, Form

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• Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.

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  Nature, Miracle, Quality

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder: Selections from the Tatler. Selections from the Spectator [no.5-150”, p.106

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• Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.

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  Men, May, Weak

  Joseph Addison (1721). “THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq; In FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME the FOURTH”, p.280

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• If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

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  Life, Dream, Hope

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.151

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• There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

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  Men, Shining, Mind

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

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• A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

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  World, May, Morality

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.408

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• Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

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  Courage, Bravery, Ifs

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• No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

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  Political, Politics, Oppression

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.286

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• If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, You Make Me Happy

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• Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

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  Christian, Men, Mind

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes”, p.25

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• An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

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  Evil, Action, Sin

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.92

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• A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

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  Liberty, Virtue, Eternity

  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.411

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• In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

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  Friends, Men, Thinking

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.293

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• We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

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  Stupid, People, Next Steps

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1868). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.197

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• Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every talent a man can be possessed of. It was Plato's advice to an unpolished writer that he should sacrifice to the graces. In the same manner I would advise every man of learning, who would not appear in the world a mere scholar or philosopher, to make himself master of the social virtue which I have here mentioned.

  Joseph Addison

  Plato, Sacrifice, Men

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1829). “The Tatler and the Guardian: Complete in One Volume, with Notes, and a General Index”

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• True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

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  Animal, Compassion, Philanthropy

  Joseph Addison (1795). “Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments; tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality”

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• True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

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  Happiness, Self, Talking

  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.442

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