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Joseph Addison Inspirational Quotes (316)

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By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity when the heavens and earth shall be no more.
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost what I possessed is left to others what I gave away remains with me.'
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Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.
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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
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If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
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In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.
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Poverty palls the most generous spirits it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.
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There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults. Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.
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Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.
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We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.
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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
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A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.
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But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.
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The statue lies hid in a block of marble and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.
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I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.
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When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
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The woman that deliberates is lost.
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Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.
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There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.
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The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
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Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
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