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Books1 quote
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 · 1711Citizen and state1 quote
What pity is it,
That we can die but once, to serve our country! — Joseph Addison · 1713Contemplation1 quote
Wide and undetermined Prospects are as pleasing to the Fancy, as the Speculations of Eternity or Infinitude are to the Understanding. — Joseph Addison · 1712Contentment1 quote
True Happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise: it 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. — Joseph Addison · 1711Dreams1 quote
Wide and undetermined Prospects are as pleasing to the Fancy, as the Speculations of Eternity or Infinitude are to the Understanding. — Joseph Addison · 1712Education1 quote
What Sculpture is to a Block of Marble, Education is to a Human Soul. — Joseph Addison · 1711Happiness1 quote
True Happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise: it 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. — Joseph Addison · 1711Making arguments1 quote
Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttle-fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him till he becomes invisible. — Joseph Addison · 1712Music1 quote
Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
And all of heaven we have below. — Joseph Addison · 1694Patriotism1 quote
What pity is it,
That we can die but once, to serve our country! — Joseph Addison · 1713Serving one's country1 quote
What pity is it,
That we can die but once, to serve our country! — Joseph Addison · 1713