Joseph Addison Quotes

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• No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

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  Appreciation, Volunteer, World

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  Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

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  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

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  Stupid, People, Natural

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• If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

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  Flattery, Persons, Skillful

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• Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

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  Happiness, Patience, Pain

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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  Inspirational, Education, Book

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270

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• Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

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  Knowledge, Men, Next

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.132

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• Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

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  Happiness, Inspiration, Health

  "Pray It Forward:daily Meditations". Book by Rowena Holloway and Joyce Bullion, p. 25, 2007.

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• One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

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  Powerful, Mind, Important

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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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• There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

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  Men, Evil, Secret

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

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  Funny, Money, Work

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

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  Courage, Bravery, Ifs

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• The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

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  Friendship, Real, Life Is

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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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• Let freedom never perish in your hands.

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  Freedom, 4th Of July, Hands

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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.

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  Life, Happiness, Men

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

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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.

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  Eye, Impossible, Rivalry

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

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• Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

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  Heart, Pride, Men

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• Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

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  Favors, Mankind, Ingenuity

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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.

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  Italian, Men, Despair

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• There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.

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  Truth, Plato, Errors

  Joseph Addison (1857). “Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.144

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