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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
~ Joseph Addison, born today, 1672.
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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
~ Joseph Addison, born today, 1672.
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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
~ Joseph Addison, born today, 1672.
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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
~ Joseph Addison, born today, 1672.
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
When Men are easy in their Circumstances, they are naturally Enemies to Innovations.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1716-05-16), The Freeholder, No. 42More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/83076…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
When Men are easy in their Circumstances, they are naturally Enemies to Innovations.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1716-05-16), The Freeholder, No. 42More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/83076…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #circumstance #comfort #conservative #ease #statusquo #situation #satisfaction
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
When Men are easy in their Circumstances, they are naturally Enemies to Innovations.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1716-05-16), The Freeholder, No. 42More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/83076…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #circumstance #comfort #conservative #ease #statusquo #situation #satisfaction
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
When Men are easy in their Circumstances, they are naturally Enemies to Innovations.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1716-05-16), The Freeholder, No. 42More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/83076…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #circumstance #comfort #conservative #ease #statusquo #situation #satisfaction
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. It finishes one half of the human Soul. It makes Being pleasant to us, fills the mind with entertaining views and administers to it a perpetual series of gratifications. It gives ease to fortitude, and gracefulness to retirement. It fills a publick station with suitable abilities, and adds a lustre to those who are in the possession of them.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-18), The Guardian, No. 111More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82734…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #education #excellence #knowledge #learning #superiority
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. It finishes one half of the human Soul. It makes Being pleasant to us, fills the mind with entertaining views and administers to it a perpetual series of gratifications. It gives ease to fortitude, and gracefulness to retirement. It fills a publick station with suitable abilities, and adds a lustre to those who are in the possession of them.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-18), The Guardian, No. 111More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82734…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #education #excellence #knowledge #learning #superiority
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. It finishes one half of the human Soul. It makes Being pleasant to us, fills the mind with entertaining views and administers to it a perpetual series of gratifications. It gives ease to fortitude, and gracefulness to retirement. It fills a publick station with suitable abilities, and adds a lustre to those who are in the possession of them.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-18), The Guardian, No. 111More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82734…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #education #excellence #knowledge #learning #superiority
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. It finishes one half of the human Soul. It makes Being pleasant to us, fills the mind with entertaining views and administers to it a perpetual series of gratifications. It gives ease to fortitude, and gracefulness to retirement. It fills a publick station with suitable abilities, and adds a lustre to those who are in the possession of them.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-18), The Guardian, No. 111More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82734…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #education #excellence #knowledge #learning #superiority
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. It finishes one half of the human Soul. It makes Being pleasant to us, fills the mind with entertaining views and administers to it a perpetual series of gratifications. It gives ease to fortitude, and gracefulness to retirement. It fills a publick station with suitable abilities, and adds a lustre to those who are in the possession of them.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-18), The Guardian, No. 111More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82734…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #education #excellence #knowledge #learning #superiority
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind, that we may suppose her thoughts are wholly intent on the equity of a cause, without being diverted or prejudiced by objects foreign to it.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82602…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind, that we may suppose her thoughts are wholly intent on the equity of a cause, without being diverted or prejudiced by objects foreign to it.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82602…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #bias #blindjustice #equity #justice #prejudice
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind, that we may suppose her thoughts are wholly intent on the equity of a cause, without being diverted or prejudiced by objects foreign to it.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82602…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #bias #blindjustice #equity #justice #prejudice
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind, that we may suppose her thoughts are wholly intent on the equity of a cause, without being diverted or prejudiced by objects foreign to it.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82602…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #bias #blindjustice #equity #justice #prejudice
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When a nation once loses its regard to justice; when they do not look up it as something venerable, holy and inviolable; when any of them dare presume to lessen, affront or terrify those who have the distribution of it in their hands; when a judge is capable of being influenced by any thing that is foreign to its own merits, we may venture to pronounce that such a nation is hastening to its ruin.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82451…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #josephaddison #corruption #decline #influence #injustice #judge #judicialsystem #judiciary #justice #legalsystem #ruin
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When a nation once loses its regard to justice; when they do not look up it as something venerable, holy and inviolable; when any of them dare presume to lessen, affront or terrify those who have the distribution of it in their hands; when a judge is capable of being influenced by any thing that is foreign to its own merits, we may venture to pronounce that such a nation is hastening to its ruin.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82451…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #josephaddison #corruption #decline #influence #injustice #judge #judicialsystem #judiciary #justice #legalsystem #ruin
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When a nation once loses its regard to justice; when they do not look up it as something venerable, holy and inviolable; when any of them dare presume to lessen, affront or terrify those who have the distribution of it in their hands; when a judge is capable of being influenced by any thing that is foreign to its own merits, we may venture to pronounce that such a nation is hastening to its ruin.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82451…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #josephaddison #corruption #decline #influence #injustice #judge #judicialsystem #judiciary #justice #legalsystem #ruin
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When a nation once loses its regard to justice; when they do not look up it as something venerable, holy and inviolable; when any of them dare presume to lessen, affront or terrify those who have the distribution of it in their hands; when a judge is capable of being influenced by any thing that is foreign to its own merits, we may venture to pronounce that such a nation is hastening to its ruin.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82451…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #josephaddison #corruption #decline #influence #injustice #judge #judicialsystem #judiciary #justice #legalsystem #ruin
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When a nation once loses its regard to justice; when they do not look up it as something venerable, holy and inviolable; when any of them dare presume to lessen, affront or terrify those who have the distribution of it in their hands; when a judge is capable of being influenced by any thing that is foreign to its own merits, we may venture to pronounce that such a nation is hastening to its ruin.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82451…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #josephaddison #corruption #decline #influence #injustice #judge #judicialsystem #judiciary #justice #legalsystem #ruin
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
LUCIUS: From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 5, sc. 4, l. 106ff (1713)More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82267…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
LUCIUS: From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 5, sc. 4, l. 106ff (1713)More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82267…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #civildiscord #civilwar #discord #disunity #internecinewarfare #strife
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
LUCIUS: From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 5, sc. 4, l. 106ff (1713)More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82267…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #civildiscord #civilwar #discord #disunity #internecinewarfare #strife
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
LUCIUS: From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 5, sc. 4, l. 106ff (1713)More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82267…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
CATO: Forbear, Sempronius! — see they suffer death,
But in their deaths remember they are men.
Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 3, sc. 5, l. 60ff (1713)More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82136…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
CATO: Forbear, Sempronius! — see they suffer death,
But in their deaths remember they are men.
Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 3, sc. 5, l. 60ff (1713)More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82136…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #addison #capitalpunishment #death #deathpenalty #punishment #torture
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
CATO: Forbear, Sempronius! — see they suffer death,
But in their deaths remember they are men.
Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 3, sc. 5, l. 60ff (1713)More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82136…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #addison #capitalpunishment #death #deathpenalty #punishment #torture
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
CATO: Forbear, Sempronius! — see they suffer death,
But in their deaths remember they are men.
Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 3, sc. 5, l. 60ff (1713)More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/82136…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
MARCUS: Oh Portius, is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heav’n
Red with uncommon wrath to blast the man,
Who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin?Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 20ff (1713)More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81926…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
MARCUS: Oh Portius, is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heav’n
Red with uncommon wrath to blast the man,
Who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin?Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 20ff (1713)More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81926…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
MARCUS: Oh Portius, is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heav’n
Red with uncommon wrath to blast the man,
Who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin?Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 20ff (1713)More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81926…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #addison #divineretribution #divinewrath #fame #greatness #patriotism #revolution
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
MARCUS: Oh Portius, is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heav’n
Red with uncommon wrath to blast the man,
Who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin?Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 20ff (1713)More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81926…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #addison #divineretribution #divinewrath #fame #greatness #patriotism #revolution
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
MARCUS: Oh Portius, is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heav’n
Red with uncommon wrath to blast the man,
Who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin?Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 20ff (1713)More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81926…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
Musick, the greatest Good that Mortals know,
And all of Heav’n we have below.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Poem (1694), “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, at Oxford,” st. 3More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/15980…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
Musick, the greatest Good that Mortals know,
And all of Heav’n we have below.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Poem (1694), “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, at Oxford,” st. 3More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/15980…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #cecilia #stcecilia #saintcecilia #blessing #heaven #music #song
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
Musick, the greatest Good that Mortals know,
And all of Heav’n we have below.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Poem (1694), “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, at Oxford,” st. 3More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/15980…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #cecilia #stcecilia #saintcecilia #blessing #heaven #music #song
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
Musick, the greatest Good that Mortals know,
And all of Heav’n we have below.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Poem (1694), “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, at Oxford,” st. 3More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/15980…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
VELLUM: There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
The Drummer, Act 5, sc. 1 (1716)More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81509…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
VELLUM: There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
The Drummer, Act 5, sc. 1 (1716)More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81509…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
VELLUM: There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
The Drummer, Act 5, sc. 1 (1716)More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81509…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
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 (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81313…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
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 (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81313…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81187…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81187…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #circumspection #diplomacy #discretion #gettingalong #judgment #prudence #subtlety #tact #talent #timing #success
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion; it is this, indeed, which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81055…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion; it is this, indeed, which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81055…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #appropriateness #discretion #judgment #propriety #timing #virtues
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
I have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool. There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/80953…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
I have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool. There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/80953…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #blurting #chatter #consideration #conversation #discretion #fool #minds #selfcensorship #selfcontrol #selfrestraint #streamofconsciousness #thoughts #wisdom
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
As exercise becomes tedious and painful when we make use of it only as the means of health, so reading is apt to grow uneasy and burdensome, when we apply ourselves to it only for our improvement in virtue. For this reason, the virtue which we gather from a fable, or an allegory, is like the health we get by hunting; as we are engaged in an agreeable pursuit that draws us on with pleasure, and makes us insensible of the fatigues that accompany it.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1709-03-18), The Tatler, No. 147More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/80785…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #books #drudgery #duty #engagement #entertainment #reading #selfimprovement #enjoyment
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
As exercise becomes tedious and painful when we make use of it only as the means of health, so reading is apt to grow uneasy and burdensome, when we apply ourselves to it only for our improvement in virtue. For this reason, the virtue which we gather from a fable, or an allegory, is like the health we get by hunting; as we are engaged in an agreeable pursuit that draws us on with pleasure, and makes us insensible of the fatigues that accompany it.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1709-03-18), The Tatler, No. 147More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/80785…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
As exercise becomes tedious and painful when we make use of it only as the means of health, so reading is apt to grow uneasy and burdensome, when we apply ourselves to it only for our improvement in virtue. For this reason, the virtue which we gather from a fable, or an allegory, is like the health we get by hunting; as we are engaged in an agreeable pursuit that draws us on with pleasure, and makes us insensible of the fatigues that accompany it.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1709-03-18), The Tatler, No. 147More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/80785…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
As exercise becomes tedious and painful when we make use of it only as the means of health, so reading is apt to grow uneasy and burdensome, when we apply ourselves to it only for our improvement in virtue. For this reason, the virtue which we gather from a fable, or an allegory, is like the health we get by hunting; as we are engaged in an agreeable pursuit that draws us on with pleasure, and makes us insensible of the fatigues that accompany it.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1709-03-18), The Tatler, No. 147More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/80785…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #books #drudgery #duty #engagement #entertainment #reading #selfimprovement #enjoyment
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
As exercise becomes tedious and painful when we make use of it only as the means of health, so reading is apt to grow uneasy and burdensome, when we apply ourselves to it only for our improvement in virtue. For this reason, the virtue which we gather from a fable, or an allegory, is like the health we get by hunting; as we are engaged in an agreeable pursuit that draws us on with pleasure, and makes us insensible of the fatigues that accompany it.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1709-03-18), The Tatler, No. 147More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/80785…
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A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1710-07-01), The Tatler, No. 192More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/34505…
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A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1710-07-01), The Tatler, No. 192More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/34505…
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A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1710-07-01), The Tatler, No. 192More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/34505…
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A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1710-07-01), The Tatler, No. 192More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/34505…
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-03-30), “Thoughts in Westminster Abbey,” The Spectator, No. 26More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/6042/
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