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Joseph Addison
May 1, 1672 - June 17, 1719
Nationality: English
Category: Writer
Subcategory: English Writer

The post of honour is a private station.

   

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

   

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.

   

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

   

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

   

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

   

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

    Topics: Love

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.

   

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

   

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.

   

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

   

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

   

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

   

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

   

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.

   

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