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Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
English Writer
Born: May 1, 1672
Died: Jun 17, 1719
Great Life Man Mind Nature Nothing
Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
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
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. Joseph Addison
Best Health Mind Promoter Cheerfulness Friendly Body
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. Joseph Addison
Passion Immediately Admiration Object Very Familiar Decay Short-Lived Growing
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies. Joseph Addison
Justice Brow Armies Force Demolished Built Nor Overthrown Mountain Cannot Which Fortress Violence
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
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. Joseph Addison
Nature Man Our Ability Divine Divine Nature Perfectly Attribute Glory Just Utmost
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
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. Joseph Addison
Life Nature Man Grief Humanity Enough Adding Our Evils Had Cruel Calamity Sorrows Another Continually Condition Subject Very Sown Common Aggravating Pains Treatment
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. Joseph Addison
Nature Man Change Fool Ride Men Sail Sense Out Himself Climate Goes May Common Cannot Common Sense
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. Joseph Addison
Better Honor Thousand Wound Ten Deaths Than Die
Jesters do often prove prophets. Joseph Addison
Prophets Prove Often
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
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