Joseph Addison

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"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
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."	Happiness, Hope, Joy
"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."	Men
"Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."	Darkness, Light, Time
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."	Education, School, Teaching
"The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them."	Death, Destruction, Fear
"There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty."	Beauty
"One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success."	Religion, Success
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."	Ability, Music
"Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes. "	Age, Courage
"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes."	Men, Women
"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
"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
"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
"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
"'We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us."	Miscellaneous
"What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country!"	Death
"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."	Friends, Happiness, Joy
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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