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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.
Joseph Addison
Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.
Joseph Addison
An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.
Joseph Addison
It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate ages of the world, but at a time when arts and sciences were at their height.
Joseph Addison
I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.
Joseph Addison
Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.
Joseph Addison
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
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.
Joseph Addison
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
Joseph Addison
The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.
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I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.
Joseph Addison
Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.
Joseph Addison
There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.
Joseph Addison
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
Joseph Addison
Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
Joseph Addison
If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.
Joseph Addison
The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Joseph Addison
It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.
Joseph Addison
It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.
Joseph Addison
