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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/48/">Quotes by <em>Addison, Joseph</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Joseph Addison (May 1, 1672 June 17, 1719) was an English politician and writer. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."

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"I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair."

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"There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress."

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"Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer."

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"Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm."

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"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul."

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"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express."

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"That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?"

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"Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them."

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"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."

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