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“The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.”

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Joseph Addison, born on May 1, 1672, and died on June 17, 1719, was an influential English essayist, dramatist, and poet. He is known for his elegant prose style and his co-authorship of the magazine 'The Spectator' with Richard Steele. more

“Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunities of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.”

Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.”

Mind Action Law Virtue Kings Honor Perfection Sacred Noble Aids Ties Honour

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes

“There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.”

Real Pain Pleasure Labor Valuable Noble Without Pain

Author:Joseph Addison

“It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.”

Ifs Love May Doe Said Soul Would Be Certain Passion Half Effects Produce Degrees Strikes Contrary Animated Insipid Soul Life

Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“Look what a little vain dust we are!”

Looks Littles Dust Vain

Book:English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith

Source: English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith

“Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.”

Evil Causes Ignorance Misery Excited Yield

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