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• Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.

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  Art, Eye, Light

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.43

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• Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

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  Men, Honor, Vices

  'Cato' (1713) act 4, sc. 1, l. 319

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• With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

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  Inspirational, People, Prudent

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• The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh.

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  Love, Farewell, Half

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• I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.

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  Education, Running, Clouds

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.3178, Delphi Classics

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• Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

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  Play, Giving, Vigor

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1747). “The Spectator”, p.158

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• A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections

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  Inspiration, Imperfection, Critics

  'The Spectator' no. 291, 2 February 1712.

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• Colors speak all languages.

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  Color, Language, Speak

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.468

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• Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

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  Courage, Men, Bravery

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• Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before her time. She ought, in such cases, to exert the authority of the curtain lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious disposition, to tame him, as they do birds of prey, by dinning him in the ears all night long.

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  Husband, Night, Men

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator”, p.48

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• Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

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  Time, Time Management, Eternity

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

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• He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

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  Time, Years, Honor

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• The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

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  Jealousy, Disease, Jealously

  "The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314".

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• Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.

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  Atheism, Kind, Infinite

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.72

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• Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

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  Health, Exercise, Substitutes

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• Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

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  Music, Mind, Praise

  "The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added, Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation".

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• Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

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  Circles, Religion, Enough

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.60

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• Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and among the good fruits of enmity, mentions this in particular, that by the reproaches which it casts upon us, we see the worst side of ourselves.

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  Men, Enemy, May

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.109

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• Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

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  Character, Men, Vanity

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.158

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• There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

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  Beautiful, Imagination, Beautiful Women

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1861). “History, Opinions, and Lucubrations, of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq: From the "Tatler"”, p.174

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• Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

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  Music, Art, Moving

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.425

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• A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take particular care, will be interpreted by him as an overture of friendship and intimacy.

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  Care, Common, Trouble

  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.314

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• Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that glitters in the sight at a distance; to neglect solid and substantial happiness for what is showy and superficial; and to contemn that good which lies within their reach, for that which they are not capable of attaining. Hope calculates its schemes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin, and dishonour.

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  Happiness, Distance, Lying

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 315-635”, p.308

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• There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.

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  Passion, Heart, Pride

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.321

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• It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have not been touched upon by others. We have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights.

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  Beautiful, Strong, Art

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.306

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