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Admiration
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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 new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
-Joseph Addison
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Advertising
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Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.
-Joseph Addison
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Advice
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
-Joseph Addison
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Age
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Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.
-Joseph Addison
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
-Joseph Addison
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Animals
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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
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Argument & Debate
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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
-Joseph Addison
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
-Joseph Addison
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Attitude
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
-Joseph Addison
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Authors & Writing
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.
-Joseph Addison, "in the Spectator, no. 166"
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Beauty
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
-Joseph Addison
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Books
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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.
-Joseph Addison
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Bravery
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.
-Joseph Addison
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Business
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There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
-Joseph Addison
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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.
-Joseph Addison
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Censorship
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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.
-Joseph Addison
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A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.
-Joseph Addison
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Charity
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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
-Joseph Addison
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.
-Joseph Addison
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Confidence
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
-Joseph Addison
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Consequences
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
-Joseph Addison
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Contentment
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
-Joseph Addison
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Control
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
-Joseph Addison
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Criticism
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
-Joseph Addison
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Books by and about Joseph Addison