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Which Quotes by Joseph Addison
- Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and…
- To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
- The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
- No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
- A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
- 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…
- The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
- There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
- To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
- 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…
- 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…
- Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none…
- The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein…
- 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…
- To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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