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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Joseph Addison

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Joseph Addisson
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We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?
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Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
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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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He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
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Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.
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Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.
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Poverty palls the most generous spirits it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction.
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Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
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The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.
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That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out.
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