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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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• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  Drinking, Glasses, Enemy

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

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

  Joseph Addison

  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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• Encourage innocent amusement.

  Joseph Addison

  Amusement, Innocent

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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.

  Joseph Addison

  Sight, Ideas, Giving

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

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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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• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  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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• The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship, Real, Life Is

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• There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Beauty, Soul

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

  Joseph Addison

  Giving, Lost, Epitaph

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

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• A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Men, Care

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.55

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

  Joseph Addison

  Courage, Bravery, Ifs

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• Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon; cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance.

  Joseph Addison

  Selfish, Distance, Eye

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.226

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• A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.

  Joseph Addison

  Blessing, Men, Mind

  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.120

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• Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.

  Joseph Addison

  Anniversary, Two, Perfection

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.583

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

  Joseph Addison

  Funny, Money, Work

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

  Joseph Addison

  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.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Shining, Mind

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

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• When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

  Joseph Addison

  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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