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The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

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Joseph Addison
Age: 47 †
Born: 1672
Born: May 1
Died: 1719
Died: June 17
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.
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The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.
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I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity itself.
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Health and happiness give rise to each other.
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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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There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults. Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.
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Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.
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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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Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.
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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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A great large book is a great evil.
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