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Joseph-addison

Joseph Addison
(English Writer)

Nationality:: English
Quote count:: 176
Times favorited:: 25

Joseph Addison was an English essayist, poet, and man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison, later dean of Lichfield. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.

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Joseph Addison

“Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.”

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Joseph Addison

“The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”

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Joseph Addison

“Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.”

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Joseph Addison

“The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; ours has severest virtue for its basis, and such a friendship ends not but with life.”

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Joseph Addison

“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.”

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Joseph Addison

“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”

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Joseph Addison

“Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!”

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Joseph Addison

“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves”

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Joseph Addison

“One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.”

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Joseph Addison

“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity”

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