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Quotes by Joseph Addison

The union of the Word and Mind produces that mystery which
is called life...Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for
their-in lies the secret of mortality.

Joseph Addison : English writer, statesman, publisher, essayist & poet
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison : English writer, statesman, publisher, essayist & poet
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
 
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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 gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. 

Joseph Addison : English writer, statesman, publisher, essayist & poet
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
 
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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 : English writer, statesman, publisher, essayist & poet
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
 
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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 gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Joseph Addison : English writer, statesman, publisher, essayist & poet
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
 
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In my Lucia's absence
Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden;
I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear,
And grief, and rage and love rise up at once,
And with variety of pain distract me.

Joseph Addison : English writer, statesman, publisher, essayist & poet
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
 
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A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Joseph Addison : English writer, statesman, publisher, essayist & poet
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
 
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A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

Joseph Addison : English writer, statesman, publisher, essayist & poet
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
Source: "The Spectator," no. 1
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections.

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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Joseph Addison : English writer, statesman, publisher, essayist & poet
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
 
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