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Jesters do often prove prophets.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
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Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
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The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature.
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It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have not been touched upon by others. We have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights.
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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
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What I spent I lost what I possessed is left to others what I gave away remains with me.
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The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.
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Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition.
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Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.
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Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.
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