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Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison

“A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.”

- Joseph Addison

Source/Notes: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd (1856 edition)
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Joseph Addison

“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”

- Joseph Addison

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Joseph Addison

“A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.”

- Joseph Addison

Source/Notes: No. 231 (24 November 1711). - The Spectator (1711-1714)
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Joseph Addison

“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”

- Joseph Addison

Source/Notes: Original: "A man must be excessively stupid as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side". From: The spectator - Volume 3 (1776 edition), p. 324
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Joseph Addison

“A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.”

- Joseph Addison

Source/Notes: No. 291 (2 February 1712). - The Spectator (1711-1714). Also in: The works of Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd (1856 edition)
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Joseph Addison

“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.”

- Joseph Addison

Source/Notes: No. 475 (4 September 1712). - The Spectator (1711-1714)
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Joseph Addison

“Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.”

- Joseph Addison

Source/Notes: The Spectator, No. 256 (24 December 1711)
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Joseph Addison

“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 in which they are more ambitious to excel.”

- Joseph Addison

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Joseph Addison

“An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.”

- Joseph Addison

Source/Notes: No. 562 (2 July 1714). - The Spectator (1711-1714)
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Joseph Addison

“Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.”

- Joseph Addison

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Joseph Addison

“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.”

- Joseph Addison

Source/Notes: The Spectator, No. 387, May 24
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Joseph Addison

“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

Source/Notes: The Guardian (1767 edition)
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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 gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.”

- Joseph Addison

Source/Notes: No. 412 (23 June 1712). - The Spectator (1711-1714)
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Joseph Addison

“Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.”

- Joseph Addison

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