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• The ways of heaven are dark and intricate,
  Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors;
  Our understanding traces them in vain,
  Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search;
  Nor sees with how much art the windings run,
  Nor where the regular confusion ends.

  Joseph Addison

  Running, Art, Dark

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.481

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• The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

  Joseph Addison

  Knowledge, Men, Literature

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.230

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• Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, May, Weak

  Joseph Addison (1721). “THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq; In FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME the FOURTH”, p.280

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• A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

  Joseph Addison

  Reading, Men, Example

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.305

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• The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

  Joseph Addison

  Wise, Men, Ideas

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.309

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• It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Criticism, Ridiculous

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.238

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• True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

  Joseph Addison

  Animal, Compassion, Philanthropy

  Joseph Addison (1795). “Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments; tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality”

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• A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

  Joseph Addison

  World, May, Morality

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.408

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• Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship, Best Friend, Thinking

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.293

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• Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

  Joseph Addison

  Hypocrisy, Pedants, Form

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• Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

  Joseph Addison

  Ignorance, Yield, Evil

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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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• True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

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  Happiness, Self, Talking

  Joseph Addison (1721). “Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89”, p.442

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• There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.

  Joseph Addison

  Truth, Plato, Errors

  Joseph Addison (1857). “Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.144

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• If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Dream, Hope

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.151

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• It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

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  Mind, Affection, Virtue

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The Spectator, no. 90-505”, p.611

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• Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Pride, Men

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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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• An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

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  Evil, Action, Sin

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.92

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• The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

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  Life, Happiness, Men

  Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.336

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• I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

  Joseph Addison

  Song, Animal, Garden

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1810). “The Spectator”, p.20

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• Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Nature

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.191

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• Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.

  Joseph Addison

  Moving, Pride, Littles

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.298

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• Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

  Joseph Addison

  Strength, Faith, Practice

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• Let freedom never perish in your hands.

  Joseph Addison

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Hands

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