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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 Quotes)
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is (Joseph Addison Quotes)
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Were you with these, my prince, you’d soon forget the pale, unripened beauties of the north (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station (Joseph Addison Quotes)
When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Blessings may appear under the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let him have patience, and he will see them in their proper figures (Joseph Addison Quotes)
I would... Earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked upon as a part of the tea equipage (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders (Joseph Addison Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Upon the whole, a contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them (Joseph Addison Quotes)
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer (Joseph Addison Quotes)
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader’s eye; without which a good thing may pass over unobserved, or be lost among commissions of bankrupt (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom (Joseph Addison Quotes)
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent (Joseph Addison Quotes)
There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness (Joseph Addison Quotes)
A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world (Joseph Addison Quotes)
There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than the instinct of animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Vice is infamous, though in a prince, and virtue honorable, though in a peasant (Joseph Addison Quotes)
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities (Joseph Addison Quotes)
It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another’s works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes (Joseph Addison Quotes)
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 (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making (Joseph Addison Quotes)
The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government (Joseph Addison Quotes)
The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married (Joseph Addison Quotes)
Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them (Joseph Addison Quotes)
A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude (Joseph Addison Quotes)