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

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  Mind, May, Cleanliness

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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.

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  Book, Reading, Exercise

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

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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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• 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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• A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

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  War, Stupid, Believe

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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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• The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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  Friendship, Real Friends, Secret

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• One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

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  Powerful, Mind, Important

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• Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

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  Love, Life, Soul

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1856). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703”, p.174

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• There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance

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  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.464

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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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• 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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• There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

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  Men, Evil, Secret

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• Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

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  Life, Friday, Sunday

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1747). “The Spectator”, p.176

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• All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

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  Morning, Tea, Bread

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

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• Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

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  Stupid, People, Antidote

  "The Drummer". Play by Joseph Addison, 1716.

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• Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

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  Birthday, Mother Daughter, Fathers Day

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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.

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  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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• Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

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  Christian, Men, Mind

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes”, p.25

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• Content thyself to be obscurely good.

  Joseph Addison

  Thyself

  'Cato' (1713) act 4, sc. 1, l. 319

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• Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

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  Laughter, Men, Mirth

  'The Spectator' no. 494, 26 September 1712

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• Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.

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  Fear, Men, Evil

  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.505

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• There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

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  Morality, Observance

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