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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Joseph Addisson
Right Hon. Joseph Addison
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Humble
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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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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The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.
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Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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