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Letter "J" » Joseph Addison Quotes
«Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.»
«Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.»
«Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.»
«If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.»
«When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.»
«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 perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.»
Author: Joseph Addison
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Dramatist,
Essayist,
Poet,
Statesman)
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About:
Admiration,
Discovery
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Keywords:
admiration,
decays,
discoveries,
familiar with,
Fed,
feed upon,
fresh,
rising,
short-lived,
succession
«Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.»
«Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.»
Author: Joseph Addison
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Dramatist,
Essayist,
Poet,
Statesman)
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About:
Justice
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Keywords:
armies,
brow,
demolish,
demolished,
demolishes,
demolishing,
fortress,
fortresses,
overthrown,
overthrows,
The Brow,
The Force,
torrents,
unassailable
«Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,»
Author: Joseph Addison
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Dramatist,
Essayist,
Poet,
Statesman)
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About:
Happiness,
Love,
Marriage,
Misery,
Relationships
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Keywords:
enjoyments,
enlarges,
miseries,
scene
«No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.»
Author: Joseph Addison
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Dramatist,
Essayist,
Poet,
Statesman)
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About:
Oppression
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Keywords:
exorbitance,
heavy,
inflicted,
lasting,
legal,
oppression,
perversion,
perversions