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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
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If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
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The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.
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Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults. Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.
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My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
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Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit, and vanity of being thought in the secrets of the world or from a desire of gratifying any of these dispositions of mind in those persons with whom we converse.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
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