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• Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives a man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things.

  Joseph Addison

  Sex, Men, Opposites

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.323

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• The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.

  Joseph Addison

  Trying, Different, Pieces

  Joseph Addison (1721). “THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq; In FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME the SECOND”, p.534

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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.

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  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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• To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Success, Men

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.159

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• Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.

  Joseph Addison

  Age, Looks, Pieces

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.446

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• I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

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  Optimism, Mind, Mirth

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.103

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• The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

  Joseph Addison

  Lust, Literature, Firsts

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.156

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• Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

  Joseph Addison

  Fall, Pride, Haughtiness

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• Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

  Joseph Addison

  Evil, Anxiety, Pressure

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.265

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• Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to their mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the nations of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another and be united together by their common interest.

  Joseph Addison

  Taken, Eye, Blessing

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.114

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• Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Book, Reading

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.148

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• When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.

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  Believe, Opposites, Two

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell (1939). “The de Coverley papers”, p.55, Library of Alexandria

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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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• Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

  Joseph Addison

  Pain, Learning, Men

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.135

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• There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

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  Greatness, Defense, Obscurity

  "The Works of Joseph Addison".

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• Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.

  Joseph Addison

  Drama, Men, Fool

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index ...”, p.125

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• The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

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  Voice, Reason, Bent

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: with a biographical and critical preface, and explanatory notes”, p.372

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• Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

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  Friendship Love, World, Virtue

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1831). “Tatler and Guardian”, p.333

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• A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

  Joseph Addison

  Greatness, Soul, Looks

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.256

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• A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

  Joseph Addison

  House, Imperfection, Literature

  'The Spectator' no. 291, 2 February 1712.

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• If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Laughing, Vices

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.324

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• There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

  Joseph Addison

  Idols, Unhappy, Literature

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1797). “The Spectator”, p.298

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• One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

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  Men, Excess, World

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.380

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• Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.

  Joseph Addison

  Authorship, Materials

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The Spectator, no. 507-600. The Guardian. By Nestor Ironside, esq; The Lover. The present state of the war, and the necessity of an argumentation, considered. The late tryal and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Free-holder. Of the Christian religion. The names of the subscribers”, p.454

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• Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Eye, Light

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.43

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