JAJoseph Addison

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Joseph Addison

Life dates: 1672 AD — 1719 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1695 AD

Inward cheerfulness is an implicit praise and thanksgiving to Providence under all its dispensations.

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02c. 1695 AD

It is impossible for any man to form a right judgment of his neighbour's sufferings.

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03c. 1695 AD

It is the work of a philosopher to be every day subduing his passions and laying aside his prejudices.

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04c. 1695 AD

Justice may be furnished out of fire, as far as her sword goes; and courage may be all over a continual blaze.

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05c. 1695 AD

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

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06c. 1695 AD

Lampoons and satires, that are written with wit and spirit, are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.

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07c. 1695 AD

Learn never to repine at your own misfortunes, or to envy the happiness of another.

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08c. 1695 AD

Love is not to be reason'd down or lost / In high ambition or a thirst of greatness.

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09c. 1695 AD

Man is the merriest species of the creation.

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10c. 1695 AD

Man's conviction should be strong, and so well timed that worldly advantages may seem to have no share in it.

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11c. 1695 AD

Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition, and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it.

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12c. 1695 AD

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

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13c. 1695 AD

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral and religious feelings.

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14c. 1695 AD

Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of man's own making.

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15c. 1695 AD

No thought is beautiful which is not just, and no thought can be just which is not founded on truth.

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16c. 1695 AD

One may often find as much thought on the reverse of a medal as in a canto of Spenser.

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17c. 1695 AD

Patience had no sooner placed herself by the mount of sorrows, but the whole heap sunk to such a degree, that it did not appear a third part so big as it was before.

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18c. 1695 AD

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

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19c. 1695 AD

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry and casts resolution itself into despair.

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20c. 1695 AD

Pride flows from want of reflection and ignorance of ourselves. Knowledge and humility come upon us together.

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21c. 1695 AD

Quick sensibility is inseparable from a ready understanding.

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22c. 1695 AD

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

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23c. 1695 AD

Some virtues are only seen in affliction, and some in prosperity.

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24c. 1695 AD

The even and cheerful temper makes us pleasing to ourselves, to those with whom we converse, and to Him whom we were made to please.

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