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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.
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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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The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.
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Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
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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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A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.
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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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Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
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Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.
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It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate ages of the world, but at a time when arts and sciences were at their height.
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