| 154 Famous Quotes by Joseph Addison
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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.”
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“Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.”
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“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.”
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“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity”
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“The love of a family is life's greatest blessing”
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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”
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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,”
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“Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it”
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“Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false”
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“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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”
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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.”
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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 Source: Sir Roger on the Bench
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“When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Sir Roger on the Bench
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“A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Sir Roger on the Bench
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“Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this
virtue.”
Philanthropy Quotes Source: in the "Guardian", no. 166
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“I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a
thousand pounds.”
Speech Quotes Source: to a lady who complained of his having talked little in company, see "Boswell's Life of Johnson"
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“On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait,
And from your judgment must expect my fate.”
Judgment Quotes Source: A Poem to His Majesty (l. 21)
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“Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and
essentially raises one man above another.”
Knowledge Quotes Source: in the "Guardian", no. 111, Letter of Alexander to Aristotle
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“See they suffer death,
But in their deaths remember they are men,
Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.”
Punishment Quotes Source: Cato (act III, sc. 5)
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“Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.”
Friendship Quotes Source: The Campaign (l. 102)
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“The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;
Ours has severest virtue for its basis,
And such a friendship ends not but with life.”
Friendship Quotes Source: Cato (act III, sc. 1)
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“Oh! think what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods,
Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time,
Filled up with horror all, and big with death!”
Conscience Quotes Source: Cato (act I, sc. 3)
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Joseph Addison Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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