Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Joseph Addison quotes, Joseph Addison sayings, and Joseph Addison proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Cleanliness can be defined as the purest emblem of the mind.Joseph Addison
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Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.Joseph Addison
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.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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It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.Joseph Addison
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, the moon takes up the wondrous tale, and nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.Joseph Addison
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.Joseph Addison
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Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.Joseph Addison
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The post of honour is a private station.Joseph Addison
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It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.Joseph Addison
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of movement.Joseph Addison
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.Joseph Addison
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Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.Joseph Addison
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From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.Joseph Addison
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Nothing makes men sharper than want. Joseph Addison
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind. Joseph Addison
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.Joseph Addison
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The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.Joseph Addison
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Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.Joseph Addison
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.Joseph Addison
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.Joseph Addison
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Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding. Joseph Addison
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.Joseph Addison
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An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.Joseph Addison
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselvesJoseph Addison
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Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.Joseph Addison
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There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.Joseph Addison
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away, the post of honor is a private station.Joseph Addison
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.Joseph Addison