Joseph Addison

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"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
"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
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."	Education, School, Teaching
"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
"The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them."	Death, Destruction, Fear
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."	Ability, Music
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."	Happiness, Hope, Joy
"The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves."	Violence
"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."	Excellence, Friends, Happiness
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."	Ability, Evil, Life
"'We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us."	Miscellaneous
"One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success."	Religion, Success
"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
"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week."	Time
"Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes. "	Age, Courage
"I value my garden more for being full [of] blacbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."	Miscellaneous
"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
"There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty."	Beauty
"Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art."	Music
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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