Joseph Addison Quotes

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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.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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

  Joseph Addison

  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.

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

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  Humble, Humility, Literature

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

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  Stupid, People, Natural

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

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  Men, Aggravation, Literature

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator; with Notes, and a General Index”, p.346

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• The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

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  Friendship, Real, Life Is

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• Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

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  Beauty, Kindness, Absence

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.402

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• A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

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  Blessed, Blessing, Men

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.300

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• Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

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  Heart, Hands, Charity

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.386

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• The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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  Friendship, Real Friends, Secret

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• There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

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  Inspirational, Beauty, Soul

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• Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

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  Funny, Humor, Criticism

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• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

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  Motivational, Inspiring, Education

  The Spectator, No. 215, November 6, 1711.

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

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

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  Courage, Bravery, Ifs

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• I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool. There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.

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  Wise, Men, Vanity

  Joseph Addison (1858). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: Withletters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.530

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• A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

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  Heart, Men, Care

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.55

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• A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

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  War, Stupid, Believe

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