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Quotes by Joseph Addison

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.

Joseph Addison : English writer, statesman, publisher, essayist & poet
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
 
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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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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Joseph Addison : English writer, statesman, publisher, essayist & poet
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
 
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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 : English writer, statesman, publisher, essayist & poet
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
 
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Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.

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