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.

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  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.

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

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  Stupid, People, Natural

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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.

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  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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• Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

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  Pride, Men, Arrogance

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

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  Success, Perseverance, Guardian Angel

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• But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

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  Giving, Silence, Advantage

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.98

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

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  Reading, Addiction

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

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  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.

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  Flattery, Persons, Skillful

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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

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  Men, Attention, Absurd

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

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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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• 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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• What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

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  Giving, Lost, Epitaph

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: With Notes and Illustrations. In Six Volumes”, p.270

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• Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

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  Ornaments, Literature, Modesty

  Joseph Addison (1721). “THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq; In FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME the THIRD”, p.218

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• He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

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  Independent, Greatness, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.227

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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.

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  Silence, Sublime, Mind

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

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• Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.

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  Drinking, Glasses, Enemy

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.252

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• Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

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  Music, Wisdom, Heaven

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day'

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