Species Quotes by Joseph Addison

11 Species quotes by Joseph Addison

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These eleven Addison passages, written in a classic style, reflect on humanity’s place among living beings. They offer a measured, literary take on the notion of species.

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Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.

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Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.

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I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune.…

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Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately…

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Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I…

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It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order…

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One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and…

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Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and…

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It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards…

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Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid…

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When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and…

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There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

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We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

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As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

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There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply…

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When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.

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Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

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T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

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The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

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The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief…

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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;…

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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

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