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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Joseph Addison Topic: Absurdity

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Joseph Addison Topic: Admiration

Admiration is a very short lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Joseph Addison Topic: Admiration

Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!

Joseph Addison Topic: Apparitions

Much might be said on both sides.

Joseph Addison Topic: Argument

The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

Joseph Addison Topic: Authorship

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

Joseph Addison Topic: Beauty

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Joseph Addison Topic: Bigotry

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Joseph Addison Topic: Books

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Joseph Addison Topic: Books and Reading

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

Joseph Addison Topic: Business

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Joseph Addison Topic: Censure

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Joseph Addison Topic: Censure

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

Joseph Addison Topic: Charity

A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.

Joseph Addison Topic: Cheerfulness

Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!

Joseph Addison Topic: Conscience

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

Joseph Addison Topic: Conversation

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

Joseph Addison Topic: Country

I think the Romans call it Stoicism.

Joseph Addison Topic: Courage

The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.

Joseph Addison Topic: Courage

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