{"id":3041,"date":"2016-05-13T13:45:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T18:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2016-05-13T13:45:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T18:45:54","slug":"Famous_Quotes_by_Joseph_Addison_84_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=3041","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes by Joseph Addison (84 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"
1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman<\/b><\/div>\n
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''We are always doing,'' says he, ''something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.''<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Posterity<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Merit<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Weather<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Contentment<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Conscience<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Bigotry<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants…<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Fulfillment<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Censure<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Marriage<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Admiration<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Ostentation<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Animals<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Argument<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Men and Women<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Dullness<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Honor<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Books and Reading<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Family<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Cheerfulness<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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 ;in a uniform manner.<\/div>\n
Joseph Addison – [Courage<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Quotations 1 to 20 of 84<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNext ><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLast<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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