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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• Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Exercise, Science

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.371

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

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  Stupid, People, Natural

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• As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

  Joseph Addison

  Reading, Addiction

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• If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

  Joseph Addison

  Success, Perseverance, Guardian Angel

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• What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Attention, Absurd

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.243

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• Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Miracle, Quality

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder: Selections from the Tatler. Selections from the Spectator [no.5-150”, p.106

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

  Joseph Addison

  Beauty, Kindness, Absence

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

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• Look what a little vain dust we are!

  Joseph Addison

  Dust, Looks, Littles

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, William Makepeace Thackeray (1906). “English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith”

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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.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

  Joseph Addison

  Advice, Literature, Good Advice

  Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers, Joseph Addison (1806). “The Spectator”, p.208

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

  Joseph Addison

  Flattery, Persons, Skillful

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

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Inspiration, Health

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

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• Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Doe, Purpose

  "Cato, A Tragedy". Play by Joseph Addison, 1713.

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

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Hands, Charity

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

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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.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Patience, Pain

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• Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

  Joseph Addison

  Silence, Sublime, Mind

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1831). “Tatler and Guardian”, p.251

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

  Joseph Addison

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

  Joseph Addison

  Courage, Bravery, Ifs

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• The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship, Real, Life Is

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

  Joseph Addison

  Motivational, Inspiring, Education

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

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• Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

  Joseph Addison

  Funny, Humor, Criticism

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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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