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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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• 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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• Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

  Joseph Addison

  Courage, Men, Bravery

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

  Joseph Addison

  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.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Happiness, Men

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

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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.

  Joseph Addison

  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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• On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.

  Joseph Addison

  Fate, Waiting, Judgment

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.4

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• Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

  Joseph Addison

  Alchemist, Desire, Contentment

  Joseph Addison (1857). “Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.162

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• No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

  Joseph Addison

  Political, Politics, Oppression

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.286

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• There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.

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  Pain, Real, Noble

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• Let freedom never perish in your hands.

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  Freedom, 4th Of July, Hands

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• Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

  Joseph Addison

  Understanding, Sensitivity, Ready

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• When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

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  Maturity, Class, Long

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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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• Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Thinking, Hunting

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship, League, Vices

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.201

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• In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

  Joseph Addison

  Friends, Men, Thinking

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

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• Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.

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  Wit, Incongruity

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• Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings,
  The noble mind's distinguishing perfection
  That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her
  And imitates her actions where she is not:
  It is not to be sported with.

  Joseph Addison

  Kings, Law, Ties

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes”, p.364

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• Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every talent a man can be possessed of. It was Plato's advice to an unpolished writer that he should sacrifice to the graces. In the same manner I would advise every man of learning, who would not appear in the world a mere scholar or philosopher, to make himself master of the social virtue which I have here mentioned.

  Joseph Addison

  Plato, Sacrifice, Men

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1829). “The Tatler and the Guardian: Complete in One Volume, with Notes, and a General Index”

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• Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Respect, Passion

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1856). “The Spectator”, p.318

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• Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Get Well, Yoga

  The Spectator Vol. V, No. 387 (1712)

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• There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

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  Business, Decision Making

  'The Drummer' (1716) act 5, sc. 1

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• Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.

  Joseph Addison

  Water, Mind, Invisible

  The Spectator no. 476, 5 Sept. 1712

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