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Joseph Addison Quote: “Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Content thyself to be obscurely good.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “How beautiful is death, when earn’d by virtue!”
Joseph Addison Quote: “In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Nations with nations mix’d confus’dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “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 Quote: “Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the first that was ever written.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “E’en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?”
Joseph Addison Quote: “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 Quote: “The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?”
Joseph Addison Quote: “It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than those who have employed themselves in satire, under whatever dress it may appear.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “In rising sighs and falling tears.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have seen an eye curse for half an hour together, and an eyebrow call a man a scoundrel.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader’s eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials from the divine person who sent them on such a message.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Great Pompey’s shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio’s ghost walks unaveng’d amongst us!”
Joseph Addison Quote: “We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy is to raise Commiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “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 Quote: “As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the Soul than Beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is Great or Uncommon.”
Joseph Addison Quote: “Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.”
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