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• It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Criticism, Ridiculous

  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.238

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• I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.

  Joseph Addison

  Hard Work, Character, Men

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• When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

  Joseph Addison

  Maturity, Class, Long

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• Look what a little vain dust we are!

  Joseph Addison

  Dust, Looks, Littles

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, William Makepeace Thackeray (1906). “English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith”

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• Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

  Joseph Addison

  Ignorance, Yield, Evil

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• Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Giving, 50th Birthday

  Joseph Addison (2016). “Cato: A tragedy in five acts”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.

  Joseph Addison

  Italian, Men, Despair

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• It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

  Joseph Addison

  Mind, Affection, Virtue

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The Spectator, no. 90-505”, p.611

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• Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

  Joseph Addison

  Ornaments, Literature, Modesty

  Joseph Addison (1721). “THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq; In FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME the THIRD”, p.218

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• They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

  Joseph Addison

  Funny, Money, Work

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• As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

  Joseph Addison

  Reading, Addiction

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• Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Doe, Purpose

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

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• It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, Impossible, Rivalry

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.63

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• There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

  Joseph Addison

  Business, Decision Making

  'The Drummer' (1716) act 5, sc. 1

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• There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

  Joseph Addison

  Advice, Literature, Good Advice

  Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers, Joseph Addison (1806). “The Spectator”, p.208

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• Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.

  Joseph Addison

  Drinking, Glasses, Enemy

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.252

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• Encourage innocent amusement.

  Joseph Addison

  Amusement, Innocent

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• There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.

  Joseph Addison

  Pain, Real, Noble

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• When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Goal, Innovation

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “A discourse on ancient and modern learning. The drummer; or, The haunted house. The Free-holder. Of Christian religion”, p.198

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• Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

  Joseph Addison

  Writing, Ambitious, Literature

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: In Six Volumes”, p.84

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• The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Happiness, Men

  Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.336

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• Let freedom never perish in your hands.

  Joseph Addison

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Hands

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• The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Degrees, Elegance

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• Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings,
  The noble mind's distinguishing perfection
  That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her
  And imitates her actions where she is not:
  It is not to be sported with.

  Joseph Addison

  Kings, Law, Ties

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes”, p.364

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• Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Integrity, Patriotic

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The preface. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond. An opera. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. An essay of Virgil's Georgics. Cato. A tragedy. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Three setts of medals illustrated by the ancient poets, in the foregoing dialogues”, p.278

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