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• One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

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  Life, Positive, Happiness

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• Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

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  Mean, Men, Sorrow

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.656

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• For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.

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  Believe, Thinking, Our Actions

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.40

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• It is always to be understood that a lady takes all you detract from the rest of her sex to be a gift to her.

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  Sex, Slander, Understood

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1774). “The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq”, p.78

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• The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

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  Quality, Literature, Gains

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• It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather as it is the bounty of heaven, than the acquisition of our own prudence.

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  Success, Blessing, Heaven

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.283

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• Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

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  Courage, Hero, Men

  Joseph Addison (1808). “The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.38

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• If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for.

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  Thank You, Gratitude, Grateful

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: with a biographical and critical preface, and explanatory notes”, p.390

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• An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman.

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  Men, Idols, May

  Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers, Joseph Addison (1806). “The Spectator”, p.423

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• Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have seen an eye curse for half an hour together, and an eyebrow call a man a scoundrel.

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  Passion, Eye, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.114

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• Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

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  Life, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1840). “Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others”, p.273

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• It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.

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  Queens, Taken, Letters

  'The Spectator' no. 221, 13 November 1711.

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• Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

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  Generous Spirit, Despair, Cows

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• I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much as let their nails grow for the defence of their country. The men will take the work of the field off their hands, and show the world, that English valour cannot be matched when it is animated by English beauty.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Men, Hands

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator”, p.49

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• The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.

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  Beauty, Discovery, Joy

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.273

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• A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

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  Men, Enemy, Virtue

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.441

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• Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

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  Men, Good Man, Titles

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.178

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• Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.

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  May, Action, Notoriety

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.279

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• Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

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  Hope, Men, Long

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1819). “The Spectator”, p.19

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• What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

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  Crush, Fear, Men

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• Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.

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  Dream, Future, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.463

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• Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery.

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  Knavery, Suspicious

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• Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.

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  Pain, Hypocrite, Mean

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.304

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• In rising sighs and falling tears.

  Joseph Addison

  Grief, Fall, Tears

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.386

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• Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.

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  Men, Schemes, Wander

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