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Joseph Addison
politician, writer and playwright (1672-1719)
Joseph Addison was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was the eldest son of The Reverend Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine. His simple prose style marked the end of the mannerisms and conventional classical images of the 17th century.
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
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.
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
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