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The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.

Joseph Addison

Beautiful, Appearance, Figures

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1824). “The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes”, p.221

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To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Joseph Addison

Men, Umpires, Literature

Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1794). “The Guardian”, p.67

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There is not on earth a spectacle more worthy the regard of a Creator intent on his works, than a brave man superior to his sufferings.

Joseph Addison

Men, Suffering, Earth

"The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added, Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation".

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Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

Joseph Addison

Wine, Men, Vanity

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.118

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A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

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Nature, Rain, Sunshine

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1796). “The Spectator”, p.311

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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

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Clouds, Break Through, Serenity

'The Spectator' no. 381, 17 May 1712

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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Joseph Addison

Army, Hiking, Justice

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The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Joseph Addison

Lying, Secret, Mind

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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

Joseph Addison

Health, Serenity, Soul

Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.253

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Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

Joseph Addison

Nature, Simple, Delight

Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1753). “The Spectator”, p.105

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There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

Joseph Addison

Country, Want, Decay

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1866). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.410

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It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

Joseph Addison

Plato, Fall, Men

'Cato' (1713) act 5, sc. 1, l. 1

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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

Parent, Lasts, Wonderful

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.139

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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

Thinking, Generations, Firsts

Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.178

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How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!

Joseph Addison

Beautiful, Death, Virtue

Joseph Addison, James WILD (Dramatist.) (1779). “Cato; a tragedy ... As performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. Regulated from the prompt-book ... by Mr. Wild. (Bell's edition.).”, p.57

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Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers to it. Lovers, according to Sir William Petty's computation, make at least the third part of sensible men of the British nation; and it has been an uncontroverted maxim in all ages, that though a husband is sometimes a stubborn sort of a creature, a lover is always at the devotion of his mistress. By this means, it lies in the power of every fine woman, to secure at least half a dozen able-bodied men to his Majesty's service.

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Husband, Lying, Party

Joseph Addison (1860). “The Freeholder. Swift's notes on the Free-holder. The Plebian, by Sir Richard Steele, with The Old whig, by Mr. Addison. The Lover”, p.17

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There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making use of the most wicked artifices to support it.

Joseph Addison

Support, Wicked, Use

Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator. The Guardian. The Lover. The present state of the war, and the necessity of augmentation, considered. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder”, p.421

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Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.

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Men, Perfection, World

Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.329

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The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.

Joseph Addison

Party, Passion, Men

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.296

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The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

Joseph Addison

Half, World, Next

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Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.

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Men, Mirth, Serious

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No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

Joseph Addison

Book, Writing, Men

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T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle,
And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

Joseph Addison

Rocks, Liberty, Mountain

Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.37

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Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

Joseph Addison

Action, Fame, Ultimate Happiness

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Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

Joseph Addison

Vain, Let Me

Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of B. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection, and Macaulay's essay on his life and works”, p.460

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Born: May 1, 1672
Died: June 17, 1719
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