Joseph Addison Quotes

• ’Twas then great Marlbro’s mighty soul was proved.

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• A painted meadow, or a purling stream.

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• For wheresoe’er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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  Tags in Exercise, Reading, Body, Mind, Books

• ‘Tis not in mortals to command success, But we’ll do more, Sempronius; we’ll deserve it.

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• What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

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  Topics in Appreciation, Humanity, Smile

  Tags in Happiness

• To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.

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• When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions

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  Tags in Men, Circumstance

• When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

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  Tags in Innovations, Easy, Enemies, Men, Circumstance

• Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

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  Tags in Capable, Nonsense, Music, Capacity

• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

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  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Legacies, Reading, Mankind, Book

• A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

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  Tags in Misfortunes, Sunshine, Weather, Blessing

• Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

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  Tags in Brow, Fortress, Unassailable, Violence, Army

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

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  Tags in Amusement, Vivacity, Pleasure, Moment, Man, Appear

• Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Narrow, Sons, Confined, Compass, Wiser, Men, Animal

• I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

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  Tags in Indulge, Fury, Will, Sorrows, Despair

• Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin!

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  Tags in Uncommon, Wrath, Heaven, Thunder, Reason, Curse

• The woman that deliberates is lost.

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  Tags in Woman, Lost

• 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

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  Tags in Discover, Concealed, Observation, Dwell, Communicate, Criticism

• Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

  Joseph Addison

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  Tags in Defense, Obscurity, Criticism

Joseph Addison (127)

Birth:	1st May, 1672
Death:	17th June, 1719
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Essayist, Poet, Politician, Playwriter

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