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• We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

  Joseph Addison

  Stupid, People, Next Steps

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1868). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.197

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

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Aggravation, Literature

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

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• Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

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  Mind, May, Cleanliness

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

  Joseph Addison

  Blessed, Blessing, Men

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

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• They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

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  Funny, Money, Work

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• Encourage innocent amusement.

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  Amusement, Innocent

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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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• I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

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  Morality, Endeavor, Wit

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1809). “The Spectator”, p.44

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• Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

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  Men, Giving, 50th Birthday

  Joseph Addison (2016). “Cato: A tragedy in five acts”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

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  Men, Shining, Mind

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.129

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• Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

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  Moon, Listening, Stories

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.485

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• The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.

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  Italian, Men, Despair

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• Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.

  Joseph Addison

  Imagination, Perfection, Support

  Joseph Addison (1975). “Essays in Criticism and Literary Theory”, Harlan Davidson

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• How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party

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  Liars, Party, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator”, p.601

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• It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.

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  Eye, Impossible, Rivalry

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.63

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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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• Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

  Joseph Addison

  Book, Reading, Exercise

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1785). “The Tatler: Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq”, p.371

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• Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

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  Favors, Mankind, Ingenuity

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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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• Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

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  Sight, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.480

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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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• I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.

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  Hard Work, Character, Men

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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.

  Joseph Addison

  War, Stupid, Believe

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• The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

  Joseph Addison

  Character, Fate, Destiny

  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.212

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