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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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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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When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.
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Talk not of love: thou never knew'st its force.
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By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity when the heavens and earth shall be no more.
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Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have seen an eye curse for half an hour together, and an eyebrow call a man a scoundrel.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.
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It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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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Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.
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Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
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There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.
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