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Joseph Addison Quote: “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 Quote: “Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Unbounded courage and compassion join’d, Tempering each other in the victor’s mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou’rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Love is a second life...”
Joseph Addison Quote: “They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “In my Lucia’s absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “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 Quote: “There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.”
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