All Joseph Addison Quotes
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Joseph Addison
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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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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
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To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
Joseph Addison
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Joseph Addison
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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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."
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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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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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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
Joseph Addison
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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Joseph Addison
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