Frases de Joseph Addison

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
"The Spectator" (1711-1714); No. 412 (23 de junho de 1712)

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.
"The Tatler", n. 147; ; The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison - Volume 2, página 284 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=o2xUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA284, Joseph Addison - J. Tonson, 1721
Variante: A leitura é para a inteligência o que é o exercício para o corpo.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
"The Spectator (1711-1714)"; No. 215 (6 de novembro de 1711)

Colors speak all languages.
"The Spectator", n. 416, 27 de junho de 1712; "The Works of Joseph Addison: Complete in Three Volumes : Embracing the Whole of the "Spectator," "&c; Por Joseph Addison; Publicado por Harper & Brothers, 1837 books.google http://books.google.com/books?id=vKQ3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA145&dq=Colors+speak+all+languages.+Joseph+Addison

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish.
The Spectator, with illustrative notes: to which are prefixed, the lives of authors : comprehending, Addison, Steele, Parnell, Hughes, Buegel, Eusden, Tickell, and Pope : with critical remarks about their writings, Volume 3, Página 343 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=drsRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA343, Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - Printed for H.D. Symonds, T. Hurst, J. Walker, J. Scatcherd, A. and J. Black and H. Parry, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, E. Lloyd, Otridge and Son, J Cuthell, Jordan Hookham, W. Miller, S. Bagster, R. Ryan, and R.H. Westley, 1794

citado em "Frases Geniais" - Página 13, de PAULO BUCHSBAUM - Editora Ediouro Publicações, ISBN 8500015330, 9788500015335

Variante: A amizade desenvolve a felicidade e reduz o sofrimento, duplicando a nossa alegria e dividindo a nossa dor.