Joseph Addison

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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

— Joseph Addison

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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

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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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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. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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