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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 or this incorrect? Post your comments or consult wikipedia
"I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair."
Addison, Joseph on Despair
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"There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress."
Addison, Joseph on Dress
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"Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm."
Addison, Joseph on Editing and Editors
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"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul."
Addison, Joseph on Education
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Addison, Joseph on Fathers
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"Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them."
Addison, Joseph on Faults
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"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."
Addison, Joseph on Friends and Friendship
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"The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures."
Addison, Joseph on Friends and Friendship
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"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants..."
Addison, Joseph on Fulfillment
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"Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor."
Addison, Joseph on Honor
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"The post of honor is a private station."
Addison, Joseph on Honor
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Addison, Joseph on Hope
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"Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature."
Addison, Joseph on Inconsistency
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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."
Addison, Joseph on Injury
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"Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both."
Addison, Joseph on Insults
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"The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment."
Addison, Joseph on Jealousy
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"Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another."
Addison, Joseph on Knowledge
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"One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter."
Addison, Joseph on Laughter
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"Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency."
Addison, Joseph on Lies and Lying
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"Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable."
Addison, Joseph on Argument
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"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes."
Addison, Joseph on Marriage
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"As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men."
Addison, Joseph on Men and Women
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"'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it."
Addison, Joseph on Merit
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