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True fortitude is seen in great exploits, that justice warrants and that wisdom guides. All else is towering phrensy and distraction.
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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
~ Joseph Addison, born today, 1672.
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When Men are easy in their Circumstances, they are naturally Enemies to Innovations.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1716-05-16), The Freeholder, No. 42
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. It finishes one half of the human Soul. It makes Being pleasant to us, fills the mind with entertaining views and administers to it a perpetual series of gratifications. It gives ease to fortitude, and gracefulness to retirement. It fills a publick station with suitable abilities, and adds a lustre to those who are in the possession of them.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-18), The Guardian, No. 111
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Addison, Joseph - Essay (1713-07-18), The Guardian, No. 111 | WIST Quotations
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. It finishes one half of the human Soul. It makes Being pleasant to us, fills the mind with entertaining views and administers to it a perpetual series of gratifications. It gives ease to fortitude,…
A quotation from Joseph Addison
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind, that we may suppose her thoughts are wholly intent on the equity of a cause, without being diverted or prejudiced by objects foreign to it.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99
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Addison, Joseph - Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99 | WIST Quotations
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind, that we may suppose her thoughts are wholly intent on the equity of a cause, without being diverted or prejudiced by objects foreign to it.
When a nation once loses its regard to justice; when they do not look up it as something venerable, holy and inviolable; when any of them dare presume to lessen, affront or terrify those who have the distribution of it in their hands; when a judge is capable of being influenced by any thing that is foreign to its own merits, we may venture to pronounce that such a nation is hastening to its ruin.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99
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Addison, Joseph - Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99 | WIST Quotations
When a nation once loses its regard to justice; when they do not look up it as something venerable, holy and inviolable; when any of them dare presume to lessen, affront or terrify those who have the distribution of it in their hands; when a judge is capable of being…
A quotation from Joseph Addison
LUCIUS: From hence, let fierce contending nations know,What dire effects from civil discord flow.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 5, sc. 4, l. 106ff (1713)
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
CATO: Forbear, Sempronius! — see they suffer death,But in their deaths remember they are men.
Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 3, sc. 5, l. 60ff (1713)
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CATO: Forbear, Sempronius! -- see they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men. Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous. In response to Sempronius' plans to torture the captured rebel soldiers before their execution, as an example to others.
A quotation from Joseph Addison
MARCUS: Oh Portius, is there not some chosen curse,Some hidden thunder in the stores of heav’n
Red with uncommon wrath to blast the man,
Who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin?
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 20ff (1713)
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Addison, Joseph - Cato, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 20ff (1713) | WIST Quotations
MARCUS: Oh Portius, is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heav'n Red with uncommon wrath to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin? Of Julius Caesar and his overthrow of the Roman Republic.
A quotation from Joseph Addison
Musick, the greatest Good that Mortals know,And all of Heav’n we have below.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Poem (1694), “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, at Oxford,” st. 3
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