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Joseph Addison
English
Writer
Born:
May 1
,
1672
Died:
Jun 17
,
1719
Great
Life
Man
Mind
Nature
Nothing
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Joseph Addison
Sunday
Rust
Week
Clears
Whole
Away
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Joseph Addison
Man
Blessing
World
Mind
Enjoy
Contented
Greatest
Greatest Blessing
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.
Joseph Addison
Patience
Our
See
Proper
Shall
Shape
Soon
Disappointments
Blessings
Real
Losses
Often
Them
Us
Pains
Figures
Appear
Let Us
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
Life
Success
Hope
You
Wise
Perseverance
Experience
Genius
Guardian
Wish
Brother
Bosom
Counselor
Make
Caution
Friend
Succeed
Elder
Your
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
Happiness
Friendship
Conversation
True Happiness
First
Few
Select
Self
Arises
True
First Place
Place
Next
Companions
Enjoyment
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
Become
Others
Complains
More
Only
Imperfect
Perfect
Imperfection
Towards
Gentle
Quiet
Defects
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Joseph Addison
Day
Clock
Stopped
Even
Twice
Twice A Day
Right
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
Life
Smile
Good
Humanity
Sunshine
Trifles
Scattered
Along
Smiles
Sure
Pathway
Inconceivable
Flowers
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison
Life
Friendship
Few
Secret
Highest
Greatest
Discover
Pitch
Human
Which
Human Life
Enjoyment
Raise
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison
Clouds
Mind
Kind
Steady
Mirth
Through
Lightning
Daylight
Like
Cheerfulness
Gloom
Perpetual
Up
Flash
Breaks
Moment
Serenity
Fills
Keeps
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
Soul
Before
Imagination
Everything
Pleasure
Possessed
Gives
Uncommon
Idea
New
Because
Surprise
Curiosity
Which
Agreeable
Fills
Raises
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
Joseph Addison
Love
Long
Those
Marriages
Constancy
Abound
Generally
Most
Courtship
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Joseph Addison
Nature
Human Nature
Ourselves
Weakness
Temper
Greatest
Human
Inconsistency
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison
Happiness
Enemy
Will
Virtue
Corrupt
He
Becomes
Quickly
Than
Suspicion
Suspicious
Naturally
Less
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Joseph Addison
Legal
Oppression
Lasting
Authority
Inflicted
Heavy
Which
Perversion
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison
Death
People
Fear
Sets
Destroy
Mortal
Proves
Methods
Infallibly
Often
Which
Them
Lives
Save
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph Addison
Nature
Age
Youth
Matter
Stars
Worlds
Dim
Sun
Thou
Immortal
Wrecks
Shall
Shalt
Fade
Crush
Himself
Years
Sink
Wars
Grow
Amidst
Elements
Away
Flourish
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Joseph Addison
Will
Despair
Sympathy
Way
Fury
Give
Indulge
Sorrows
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
Joseph Addison
Country
Our
Once
Die
Pity
Serve
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Joseph Addison
Criticism
Defense
Except
Obscurity
Against
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
Joseph Addison
Man
Heart
Laughter
Believe
Other
Our
Distinguished
Mirth
Faculty
He
May
Capable
Naturally
Creatures
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