Joseph Addison quotes

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I have observed, that a Reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure, 'till he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or a fair M ...
Thus I live in the World, rather as a Spectator of Mankind, than as one of the Species.
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few dis ...
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that become ...
'Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
See in what peace a Christian can die.
One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices tha ...
Our Sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our Senses. It fills the Mind with the largest Variety of Ideas, converse ...
"We are always doing," says he, "something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."
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