Joseph Addison

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"'We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us."	Miscellaneous
"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes."	Men, Women
"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."	Art, Knowledge, Lies
"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."	Books, Excellence, Genius
"Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."	Darkness, Light, Time
"Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes. "	Age, Courage
"Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage."	Education
"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."	Friends, Happiness, Joy
"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."	Age, Glory, Honor
"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."	Age, Glory, Honor
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."	Ability, Education, Knowledge
"I value my garden more for being full [of] blacbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."	Miscellaneous
"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter."	Humor, Laughter, Lies
"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius."	Success
"Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter."	Laughter
"Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art."	Music
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."	Ability, Music
"One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success."	Religion, Success
"Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise."	Health
"Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life."	Criticism, Evil, Humor
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Ability	Age	Art
Beauty	Books	Courage
Criticism	Darkness	Death
Destruction	Education	Evil
Excellence	Fear	Friends
Friendship	Genius	Glory
Government	Happiness	Health
Honor	Hope	Humor
Joy	Knowledge	Laughter
Lies	Life	Light
Love	Memory	Men
Miscellaneous	Monarchy	Music
Patience	Religion	School
Sin	Success	Teaching
Time	Violence	Virtue
Wisdom	Wishing	Women