154 Famous Quotes by Joseph Addison
5/1/1672 - 6/17/1719
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About Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was the eldest son of reverend Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Beauty
Quotes, by Joseph Addison , Source: Cato (act I, sc. 4)
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Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to save our country!
Patriotism
Quotes, by Joseph Addison , Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 4)
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Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Grief
Quotes, by Joseph Addison , Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 1)
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Perfection
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves
Jealousy
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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.
Reading
Quotes, by Joseph Addison , Source: in the "Tatler", no. 147
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A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own
heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.
Heart
Quotes, by Joseph Addison , Source: Sir Roger on the Bench
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.
Admiration
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Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,
Misery
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Persecution
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
Posterity
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding
Quality
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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
Ridicule
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A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own
heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.
Proverbs
Quotes, by Joseph Addison , Source: Sir Roger on the Bench
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