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Letter "J" » Joseph Addison Quotes
«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.''»
«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.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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aggravate, aggravated, aggravates, aggravating, calamity, innumerable, sown
«I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beautines of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.»
«I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up»
«See in what peace a Christian can die.»
«If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
caution, counselor, elder, elder brother, guardian
«Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.»
«Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.»
«Conspiracies no sooner should be formed than executed»
«A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes»
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