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Joseph Addison Quotes
«The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.»
«When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Action,
Circumstances,
Men
| Keywords:
composition, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, dove, grain, serpent, The Dove
«The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; ours has severest virtue for its basis, and such a friendship ends not but with life.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
confederacies, confederacy, friendships, leagues, oft, severest
«It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.»
«A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Architecture,
Art
| Keywords:
sense of taste
«The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Quality
| Keywords:
good sense
«The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
crush, fade away, sink in, the Wrecks, unhurt
«There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it»
«Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
alliance, demand, instinct, to each other