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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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 Fashionable World is grown free and easie our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.
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Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.
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I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind
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The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.
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The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.
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What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?
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Nature is full of wonders every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
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Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.
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The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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